Helochares anchoralis Sharp, 1890

Helochares anchoralis Sharp, 1890: 353; Hendrich et al. 2004: 127; Biswas & Mukhopadhyay 1995: 157; Biswas et al. 1997: 337; Ghosh et al. 2000: 47; Khan & Ghosh 2001: 69; Mukhopadhyay & Sengupta 2004: 453; Mukhopadhyay 2007: 409; Ghosh 2011a: 23; Ghosh 2011b: 125; Ghosh 2011c: 161; Ghosh 2014: 57; Jaiswal 2012: 39; Sharma & Bano 2012: 500; Jaiswal et al. 2013: 24; Ghosh & Hegde 2013a: 64; Das et al. 2014: 458; Jaiswal et al. 2014: 97; Ghosh et al. 2016: 22; Devi et al. 2017: 8; Ghosh et al. 2018a: 441; Ghosh et al. 2018b: 28; Ghosh et al. 2021: 615; Anamika et al. 2021: 185; Girón & Short 2021: 168; Ghosh 2022: 489; Ghosh & Gupta 2022: 115; Przewoźny 2022: 27; Deb et al. 2023: 24047; Shankar et al. 2024: 460.

Helochares (Grapidelochares) anchoralis: Zaitzev 1908a: 381.

Helochares (Hydrobaticus) anchoralis: d’Orchymont 1923a: 9; d’Orchymont 1943c: 6, fig. 5; Satô 1972b: 52; Hebauer 1995a: 4; Hansen 1999a: 164; Hebauer 2002a: 23; Hansen 2004: 52; Ghosh et al. 2010: 95; Mukhopadhyay 2010: 330; Fikáček et al. 2015c: 62; Mukhopadhyay 2015: 388; Ghosh et al. 2023: 162.

Type locality: Sri Lanka [“(Ceylon)”], Colombo (Girón & Short 2021).

Distribution in India: Andaman and Nicobar Islands (Great Nicobar Island), Andhra Pradesh (East Godavari, Nellore), Assam, Bihar, Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu, Delhi, Himachal Pradesh (Sirmour, Renuka Wildlife Sanctuary, Kangra, Chamba), Jammu and Kashmir (Jammu), Madhya Pradesh (Jabalpur, Khargone), Manipur (Loktak Lake, Bishnupur, Keibul– Lamjo NP, Imphal, Senapati), Maharashtra (Pune), Nagaland, Odisha (Chilika Lake, Satkosia Wildlife Sanctuary), Puducherry (Karaikal), Punjab, Rajasthan, Sikkim, Telangana (Hyderabad, Durgam Cheruvu), Tripura (Sonamura), Uttarakhand (Bageshwar, Dehradun, Rishikesh), Uttar Pradesh (Allahabad, Aligarh, Balia, Varanasi, Sultanpur, Mirzapur, Surhatal Wildlife Sanctuary, Sandi Bird Sanctuary), and West Bengal (Kolkata).

Global distribution: Bangladesh, Cambodia, China, India, Indonesia, Japan, Laos, Malaysia, Nepal, Philippines, Sri Lanka, Singapore, Taiwan, Thailand, Vietnam, and Nepal.