Haliplus (Haliplus) ruficollis (De Geer, 1774)

Van Vondel, Bernhard J., Ostovan, Hadi & Ghahari, Hassan, 2017, An annotated checklist of Iranian Myxophaga (Hydroscaphidae, Sphaeriusidae) and Adephaga (Gyrinidae, Haliplidae, Noteridae, Rhysodidae) (Insecta: Coleoptera), Zootaxa 4216 (3), pp. 225-246 : 234

Haliplus (Haliplus) ruficollis (De Geer, 1774)

Distribution in Iran. Guilan ( Guéorguiev 1965c; Cox & Cox 1982; Vondel: Table 1 ), Mazandaran ( Mousavi et al. 2016; Vondel: Table 1 ), West Azarbaijan ( Samin et al. 2015).

General distribution. Afghanistan, Armenia, Austria, Belgium, Bosnia Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Byelorussia, “Caucasus”, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Great Britain, Greece, Hungary, Iraq, Ireland, Italy, Kazakhstan, Latvia, Luxembourg, Macedonia, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia (North and South European Territory, East and West Siberia) , Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Tadzhikistan, “Transcaucasia”, “Turkestan”, Turkey, Ukraine, Uzbekistan, former Yugoslavia ( Vondel 2005), China (Xinjiang) ( Jia & Vondel 2011) , Iran ( Vondel 2003, 2005; Vondel et al. 2006), Serbia ( Vondel 2013).

Comments. Living among filamentous algae in lakes, pools, ponds, rivers, marshes, brooks and streamlets. Preferably in stagnant water. Attracted to light ( Vondel 1997).