Hydrophilus senegalensis Percheron, 1835
Hydrous senegalensis Percheron, 1835: (4)3; Kazmi & Ramamurthy 2004: 1447; Mukhopadhyay 2010: 332.
Hydrophilus caffer Boheman, 1851: 594 .
Hydrophilus convexus Laporte, 1840: 50 .
Hydrophilus paulinierii Guérin –Méneville, 1842: 73.
Hydrous piesbergeni Reitter, 1906b: 40 .
Hydrophilus (s. str.) senegalensis: Balfour-Browne 1950: 65; Biswas & Mukhopadhyay 1995: 161; Biswas et al. 1997: 338; Hansen 1999a: 232; Hansen 2004: 55; Sharma & Bano 2012: 500; Fikáček et al. 2015c: 52; Przewoźny 2022: 20.
Stethoxus (Stethoxus) senegalensis: Régimbart 1902a: 199, pl. 7, fig., 9.
Type locality: Senegal (Hansen 1999a).
Distribution in India: Delhi, Maharashtra, Rajasthan (Jaisalmer), Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand (Dehradun, Bimtal), and West Bengal (Darjeeling: Kurseong).
Global distribution: Algeria, Angola, Egypt, Cameroon, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ethiopia, India, Kenya, Mauritania, Mozambique, Namibia, Niger, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Senegal, Somalia, South Africa, Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda, and Yemen.