A Catalogue of Indian Hydrophiloidea (Insecta: Coleoptera) Author Gupta, Devanshu Zoological Survey of India, M-Block, New Alipore, Kolkata - 700053, West Bengal, India 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 0000-0003-0129-6838 Freshwater Biology Regional Centre, Zoological Survey of India, Hyderabad, Telangana, India & priyankajan 03 @ gmail. com; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0003 - 0129 - 6838 priyankajan03@gmail.com Author Chandra, Kailash 0000-0001-9076-5442 Zoological Survey of India, M-Block, New Alipore, Kolkata - 700053, West Bengal, India & Former Director, Zoological Survey of India, M-Block, New Alipore, Kolkata - 700053, West Bengal, India & Zoological Survey of India, M-Block, New Alipore, Kolkata - 700053, West Bengal, India & kailas 611 @ rediffmail. com; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0001 - 9076 - 5442 * Corresponding author: devanshuguptagb 4102 @ gmail. com; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0001 - 9188 - 4689 & Zoological Survey of India, M-Block, New Alipore, Kolkata - 700053, West Bengal, India kailas611@rediffmail.com text Zootaxa 2024 2024-12-06 5546 1 1 92 https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5546.1.1 journal article 10.11646/zootaxa.5546.1.1 1175-5334 DC15F8C2-A0D4-47BB-9024-3416ED560E03 Sphaeridium quinquemaculatum Fabricius, 1798 Sphaeridum quinquemaculatum Fabricius, 1798: 39 ; Hansen 1999a: 315 ; Hebauer 2002a: 58 ; Hansen 2004: 67 ; Biswas & Mukhopadhyay 1995: 151 ; Mukhopadhyay & Sengupta 2004: 451 ; Mukhopadhyay 2007: 404 ; Mukhopadhyay 2010: 327 ; Jaiswal et al . 2014: 98 ; Fikáček et al . 2015c: 75 ; Mukhopadhyay 2015: 386 ; Devi et al . 2017: 7 ; Liu et al . 2021b: 307 ; Ghosh & Gupta 2022: 114 ; Przewoźny, 2022: 37 . Sphaeridum chinense Frivaldszky, 1889: 197 . Sphaeridum vicinum Laporte, 1840: 60 . Type locality : East India [“ India oriental”] ( Hansen 1999a ) . Distribution in India : Andaman and Nicobar Islands (Great Nicobar Island), Andhra Pradesh (East Godavari, Chittor, Kurnool, Prakasam), Bihar, Karnataka, Kerala, Madhya Pradesh (Khargone), Manipur (Imphal), Punjab , Rajasthan, Tamil Nadu , Telangana (Adilabad), Tripura, Uttarakhand (Lumaon, Mussorie, Nainital, Rudraprayag), Uttar Pradesh (Lucknow, Etawah, Aligarh, Agra, Ghaziabad, Lakhimpur Kheri, Shahjahanpur, Sultanpur), and West Bengal (Murshidabad). Global distribution : China , Japan , India , Indonesia , Nepal , Philippines , Sri Lanka , Saudi Arabia , and Taiwan .