Helochares lentus Sharp, 1890

Helochares lentus Sharp, 1890: 352; d’Orchymont 1922: 626; Hendrich et al. 2004: 127; Biswas & Mukhopadhyay 1995: 157; Ghosh et al. 2000: 48; Mukhopadhyay & Sengupta 2003: 40; Mukhopadhyay & Sengupta 2004: 454; Kazmi & Ramamurthy 2004: 1447; Mukhopadhyay 2007: 410; Ghosh 2011c: 161; Ghosh 2014: 57; Das et al. 2014: 458; Ghosh & Mitra 2014: 67; Ghosh et al. 2016: 22; Ghosh et al. 2018a: 441; Ghosh et al. 2018b: 28; Ghosh et al. 2021: 615; Girón & Short 2021: 180; Liu et al. 2021b: 302; Ghosh & Gupta 2022: 115; Ghosh 2022: 490; Przewoźny 2022: 27; Sonali et al. 2022: 341; Deb & Subramanian 2024: 225, fig. 3.

Helochares (Grapidelochares) lentus: Zaitzev 1908a: 381

Helochares (Hydrobaticus) lentus: d’Orchymont 1923a: 9; d’Orchymont 1943a: 3, figs., 3, 4; Hebauer, 1995a: 5, fig. 3; Hansen 1999a: 168; Hebauer 2002a: 23; Mukhopadhyay 2010: 330; Fikáček et al. 2015c: 62; Girón & Short 2021: 180.

Type locality: Sri Lanka [“(Ceylon)”], Dikoya (d’Orchymont 1943a).

Distribution in India: Andaman and Nicobar Islands (Great Nicobar Island), Andhra Pradesh (Chittor), Assam (Dibrugarh), Bihar, Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu, Himachal Pradesh (Kangra, Dharamshala), Jammu and Kashmir (Jammu), Jharkhand (Hazaribagh Wildlife Sanctuary), Manipur (Loktak Lake, Bishnupur. Churachandpur, Imphal, Senapati), Odisha (Satkosia and Basipally Wildlife Sanctuary, Chilika Lake), Rajasthan (Jodhpur, Kailana Lake), Sikkim (Jorethang, Rongpo, Namchi), Tamil Nadu (Trivandrum: Peppara Wildlife Sanctuary), Telangana, Tripura (South Tripura), Uttarakhand (Kumaon), Uttar Pradesh (Sandi Bird Sanctuary), and West Bengal (Barrackpur, Kolkata, Purulia, Sunderban Biosphere Reserve, North 24 Parganas).

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