A Catalogue of Indian Hydrophiloidea (Insecta: Coleoptera)
Author
Gupta, Devanshu
0000-0001-9188-4689
Zoological Survey of India, M-Block, New Alipore, Kolkata - 700053, West Bengal, India
devanshuguptagb4102@gmail.com
Author
Sonali, Shipra
0009-0000-8416-9046
Zoological Survey of India, M-Block, New Alipore, Kolkata - 700053, West Bengal, India & University of Calcutta, Kolkata, 35, Ballygunge Circular Rd., Ballygunge, Kolkata - 700019, West Bengal & shipra. aquaticbeetles @ gmail. com; https: // orcid. org / 0009 - 0000 - 8416 - 9046
shipra.aquaticbeetles@gmail.com
Author
Ghosh, Sujit Kumar
0000-0001-9675-9705
Zoological Survey of India, M-Block, New Alipore, Kolkata - 700053, West Bengal, India & sujit. coleoptera @ gmail. com; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0001 - 9675 - 9705
sujit.coleoptera@gmail.com
Author
Das, Priyanka
0000-0003-0129-6838
Zoological Survey of India, M-Block, New Alipore, Kolkata - 700053, West Bengal, India & priyankajan 03 @ gmail. com; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0003 - 0129 - 6838
priyankajan03@gmail.com
Author
Jaiswal, Deepa
0000-0002-3835-6892
Freshwater Biology Regional Centre, Zoological Survey of India, Hyderabad, Telangana, India & priyankajan 03 @ gmail. com; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0003 - 0129 - 6838
deepajzsi@gmail.com
Author
Chandra, Kailash
0000-0001-9076-5442
Former Director, Zoological Survey of India, M-Block, New Alipore, Kolkata - 700053, West Bengal, India & kailas 611 @ rediffmail. com; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0001 - 9076 - 5442
kailas611@rediffmail.com
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Zootaxa
2024
2024-12-06
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https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5546.1.1
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Family
Georissidae
:
This family comprises83species in the genus
Georissus
Latreille
,found in all zoogeographic regions of the world except
Antarctica
(
Hansen 1999a
;
Short & Fikáček 2011
; Fikáček 2019;
Yasuda & Yoshitomi 2022
). The genus is divided into three subgenera:
Nipponogeorissus
Satô
(two species),
Neogeorissus
Satô
(71 species), and
Georissus
Latreille
(ten species). Seven species in two subgenera,
Neogeorissus
Satô
(six species) and
Georissus
Latreille
(one species) represent the
Indian
fauna (
Tables 1
,
2
).
Champion (1923)
described them from the Himalayan regions of Uttarakhand, Sikkim and Darjeeling (West Bengal) and still reported from the
type
localities.