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.