Hypnoidus beckeri Stibick, 1980 SRI

Parekar, Harshad & Patwardhan, Amol, 2025, Annotated catalogue of the click-beetle subfamilies Hemiopinae, Hypnoidinae, Lissominae, Negastriinae, Tetralobinae, and Thylacosterninae (Coleoptera: Elateridae) of India, Zootaxa 5679 (2), pp. 151-203 : 160

Hypnoidus beckeri Stibick, 1980 SRI

Hypnoidus beckeri Stibick, 1980: 254 (original description; published type locality: Gautsa, Tibet; other localities-India: Sikkim, West Bengal); Dolin & Cate, 2001: 122 (re-examined Paratypes; “ India, Sikkim ”); Chakraborty & Chakrabarti, 2006: 194 (catalogue; India: “ West Bengal (Darjeeling), Sikkim ”); Cate, 2007: 154 (catalogue; “SD” as India: Sikkim, Darjeeling District); Gupta et al., 2018: 501 (catalogue; “2C” as India: Sikkim, Darjeeling District); Platia & Sechi, 2022: 380 (checklist; “ India: Sikkim ”).

Type Locality. Tibet: Gautsa ** .

Type Depository. Holotype, M ( NHML) ; Allotype, F ( NHML); 239 Paratypes, SU ( MNHN, NHML) .

Material examined. Two specimens ( Fig. 1 ) were examined from Kullu District , Himachal Pradesh ( FRID) .

Distribution in India. Himachal Pradesh (Kullu District), Sikkim (Gangtok District, Gyalshing District, Mangan District, Pakyong District), West Bengal (Darjeeling District).

General Distribution. China ( Tibet), India, Nepal ( Platia & Sechi 2022).

Remark. This represents the first published record of this species from Himachal Pradesh.

Figures

FIGURES 1–6. Elateridae from India, dorsal view. 1, Hypnoidus beckeri Stibick, 1980; 2, Lissomus mastrucatus Gerstaecker, 1860; 3, Arhaphes luteipes Candèze, 1897; 4, Miquasus improvisus (Dolin, 2001); 5, Zorochros mussardi Dolin & Cate, 1998; 6, Cussolenis wallacei Muona, 2020.