Dineutus (Cyclous) indicus indicus Aubé

Gupta, Devanshu, Sonali, Shipra, Wani, Irtiza, Ghosh, Priyanka, Ghosh, Asim Kumar & Ghosh, Sujit Kumar, 2025, A comprehensive taxonomic review of Indian Gyrinidae (Coleoptera): new combinations, geographic distribution, and annotated species checklist, Journal of Natural History 59 (17 - 20), pp. 1267-1338 : 1276-1284

Dineutus (Cyclous) indicus indicus Aubé

( Figures 6 (a), 14(b))

Dineutus indicus Aubé, 1838, p. 772 ; Régimbart 1882a: 405; Régimbart 1892b: 666; Régimbart 1892a: 104; Régimbart 1903: 334; Kempers 1923: 75, fig. 62; Ochs 1924: 234; Vazirani 1958: 16; Mukherjee 1966: 60; Ochs 1966b: 180; Gopalaswamy and Hanumantha 1975: 569–582; Chatterjee et al. 2004: 95; Jaiswal 2012: 38; Jaiswal et al. 2013 b: 24; Das et al. 2014: 459; Ghosh et al. 2018: 440.

Dineutus (Protodineutus) indicus : Ochs, 1926: 137, 1929b: 242, 245, 1930: 13; Vazirani 1977a: 251, 279, 1984: 22, figs. 1A, 3, 9, 10A, 14B, 31A, 33D; Biswas et al. 1995: 126; Mazzoldi 2003: 26; Mukhopadhyay and Ghosh 2007: 442; Ghosh and Hegde 2013: 62; Ghosh and Mandal 2013: 93; Jaiswal et al. 2014: 89; Ghosh et al. 2014: 105; Devi et al. 2017: 6; Hájek and Fery 2017: 23; Chandra et al. 2021: 231; Deb et al. 2023: 3.

Dineutus (Cyclous) indicus indicus : Hájek and Fery, 2019: 3, 2022: 3.

Dineutus (Cyclous) indicus : Jaiswal et al., 2023: 503, figs. 2A, D, G; Deb et al. 2023: 3; Shankar et al. 2023: 456, fig. 24.

Type locality

Indes orientales ( Aubé 1838).

Material examined

INDIA: Andhra Pradesh: Prakasam, Easten Ghats , 15.41835°N, 78.788956°E, 12 exs ., 15 June 1929, leg . H .S . Pruthi [9410–9421/H4]; Cuddapah, Palkunda Hill , 14.24806°N, 78.858611°E, 7 exs ., 15 June 1929, leg . H .S . Pruthi [9422–9428/H4]; Prakasam, Eastern Ghats , 15.41835°N, 78.788956°E, 2 exs ., 15 June 1929, leg . H .S. Pruthi [9429–9430/H4]. Assam: Kamrup Rural, 26.15929°N, 91.490614°E, 6 exs ., 25 March 1948, leg . K .S. Pradhan [9437–9442/H4]. Bihar: Patna, 25.61501°N, 85.151501°E, 6 exs ., 23 February 1938, leg . H .S. Rao and H.A. Hafiz [9443– 9448/H4]. Chhattisgarh: Surguja, Sankarghat, CHCAM 3425 , 23.2122832°N, 83.3196356°E, 1 ex ., 12 September 2012, leg . A . Raha and Party [30497/H4A]. Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu: Galonda , 20.29732°N, 73.074895°E, 1 ex ., 3 April 2017, leg . S .K.Ghosh [23216/ H4A]. Himachal Pradesh: Sirmaur, Renuka Lake , 30.61029°N, 77.456676°E, 1 ex ., 3 October 2012, leg . S .K. Ghosh [20711/H4A]. Jharkhand: Purbi Singhbhum, Jamshedpur , 22.80457°N, 86.202875°E, 6 exs ., 26 January 1954, leg . A .P. Kapur [746/H4A] – 2 exs., 17 February 1954, leg . A .P. Kapur [4751–4752/H4A] – 3 exs., 18 January 1953, leg . K .K. Tiwari [4753–4755/H4A] – 7 exs., 17 February 1955, leg . A .P. Kapur [4756–4762/H4A] – 1 ex., 18 February 1955, leg . K .K. Tiwari [4763/H4A] – 5 exs., 14 February 1954, leg . A .P . Kapur [4768–4772/H4A]; Ranchi , 23.3441°N, 85.3095°E, 4 exs ., 26 January 1954, leg . A .P. Kapur [4764–4767/H4A]. Karnataka: Belagavi, Gokak , 16.15967°N, 74.815467°E, 1 ex ., 23 November 1928, leg. B.P. and H.S. R. [9449/ H4]. Madhya Pradesh: Anuppur, Amarkantak , 22.68223°N, 81.753222°E, 21 exs ., 1 January 1927, leg . H .S. Pruthi [853–873/H4] – 2 exs., 7 May 1962, leg . S . Chakrapani [2917–2918/H4A]; Bhopal , 23.25021°N, 77.346316°E, 01 ex ., 1 December 1927, leg . H .S . Pruthi [1004/H4]; Jabalpur , 23.17657°N, 79.949311°E, 4 exs ., 12 May 1962 [3192–3195/H4A] – 5 exs., 16 November 1961 [3312–3316/H4A], leg . S . Chakrapany; Anuppur, Amarkantak , 22.68223°N, 81.753222°E, 2 exs ., 12 May 1962, leg . S . Chakraborty [4041–4042/H4A]. Maharashtra: Mumbai City, 18.96933°N, 72.819948°E, 13 exs ., 14 February 1962, leg. K. V. L. Narayana [2707–2710/H4A, 2784–2786/H4A, 3242–3248/H4A]; Satara , 17.69143°N, 74.000979°E, 4 exs ., 13 April 1952, leg . G . Silas [4773–4776/H4A]. Odisha: Angul, Labangi , 20.6488°N, 84.972188°E, 4 exs ., 22 July 2016, leg . S .K . Ghosh [23851/H4A]; Boudh, Satkosia Tiger Reserve , 20.56781°N, 84.761468°E, 3 exs ., 22 July 2016, leg . S .K . Ghosh [23852/H4A]; Angul, Hatibari , 20.61834°N, 84.813734°E, 3 exs ., 23 July 2016, leg . S .K . Ghosh [23853/H4A]; Boudh, Satkosia Tiger Reserve , 20.56781°N, 84.761468°E, 2 exs ., 2 September 2016,leg . Chitra and Party [23854/H4A] . Punjab: Jalandhar, Shahpur , 31.0708°N, 75.797464°E, 7 exs ., 3 April 2012, leg. V.D. Hegde [21245– 21251/H4A] . Rajasthan: Jhunjhunun, Pilani , 28.37001°N, 75.59987°E, 2 exs ., 7 September 1961, leg . S . Khurana [1861–1862/H4A]; Rajsamand, Jog Mandi , 25.64152°N, 73.875831°E, 4 exs ., 3 March 1948,leg . K .S. Pradhan [2774–2777/H4A]. Tamil Nadu: Dindigul, Sirumalai , 10.19424°N, 77.996704°E, 10 exs ., 12 January 2019, leg . Sewtapadma Das [25986/H4A]; Dindigul, Karanthamalai R .F., 10.30096°N, 78.191147°E, 6 exs., 14 January 2019, leg . Sewtapadma Das [25987/H4A]; Salem , 11.66404°N, 78.141678°E, 2 exs ., 21 January 2019, leg . Sewtapadma Das [25988/H4A] . Uttarakhand: Chamoli, Nanda Devi Hills , 30.54104°N, 79.971576°E, 9 exs ., 18 November 2012, leg . K .A. Subramanian [20720–20728/H4A]. West Bengal: Bankura, Paresnath , 22.95463°N, 86.747967°E, 6 exs ., 25 April 1948,leg . Sinha and Nath [9431–9436/H4] .

Distribution in India ( Figure 14 (b))

Andhra Pradesh (Amruthadara, Chittoor, Coorg, Dharamattam, Thatiguda, Talakona, Waterfalls; Vishakhapatnam,Kintukuru,Rollapadu Wildlife Sanctuary,Moddisalava Dam;Koundinya Wildlife Sanctuary: Kamalapalli, Kalyani Revu Waterfalls, Velikonda), Assam, Bihar (Patna), Chhattisgarh

(Surguja, Raipur, Jagdalpur), Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu, Gujarat (Junagarh, Kathiawar), Himachal Pradesh (Renuka Wetland, Dharampur), Jharkhand (Chota Nagpur, Singhbhum, Sahibganj, Rajmahal), Jammu and Kashmir (Jhelum), Kerala (Malabar, Travancore, Silent Valley National Park,Nilambur), Karnnataka (Bangaluru,Belgaum, Kanara,Coorg), Madhya Pradesh (Amarkantak, Jabalpur, Umaria,Mandla,Satara,Shahdol, Khandesh, Khargon), Manipur, Maharashtra (Pune,Ahmednagar), Odisha (Simplipal Ganjam,Vizagapatam,Udayagiri,Dumdum Waterfall, Ghodahada Dam, Baghalati Dam), Punjab (Patiala), Puducherry (Mahe), Rajasthan (Jhunjhunun), Sikkim, Tamil Nadu (Enoor, Coimbatore, Maruthamalai, Tharangambadi, Palni Hills, Niligiri Hills, Kodaikanal, Shenbaganur, Madurai, Ramanathapuram, Mettupalayam; Aagaya Gangai, Muttal, Beemarapatti, Malisa Govanidapuram Waterfalls; Kottachedu Kari; Annamalai Hills; Tiruchirappalli), Telangana (Hyderabad: Durgam Cheruvu, Ameenpur Lake, Mallela Theerth waterfall, Billakal, Saleshwaram Waterfall, Vattavarlapally, Mannanur, Nadimpally, Loddi Mallayya Waterfalls), Uttarakhand (Dehradun: Shastradhara, Mussorie), West Bengal (Birbhum, ‘Calcutta’ Kolkata, Berhampore, Murshidabad, Raniganj, East Midnapur : Nayachar Island , Botanical Garden) .

Global distribution

Iran, India, Nepal, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka.

Figures

Figure 6. Habitus (in dorsal view): (a) Dineutus (Cyclous) indicus indicus Aubé; (b) D. (C.) spinosus spinosus (Fabricius); (c) D. (C.) unidentatus (Aubé); (d) Aulonogyrus (Aulonogyrus) obliquus (Walker).

Figure 14. Map of India showing the distribution of Indian species of Gyrinidae: (a) Dineutus (Cyclous) indicus himalayensis, D. (Cyclous) unidentatus; (b) D. (Cyclous) indicus indicus; (c) D. (Cyclous) spinosus spinosus; (d) Aulonogyrus (Aulonogyrus) obliquus.