Metagyrinus arrowi (Régimbart)

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 : 1298-1299

Metagyrinus arrowi (Régimbart)

( Figures 7 (d), 15(b))

Aulonogyrus arrowi Régimbart, 1907, p. 161 .

Paragyrinus arrowi : Ochs 1924: 231; Ochs 1930: 4; Vazirani 1958: 16; Ochs 1966a: 243.

Metagyrinus arrowi : Vazirani 1977c: 291; Vazirani 1984: 28; Mukhopadhyay et al. 2000: 82; Mazzoldi 2003: 28; Miller and Bergsten 2012: 736; Hájek and Fery 2017: 27; Hájek and Fery 2019: 6; Hájek and Fery 2022: 6.

Type locality

NW India ( Régimbart 1907).

Material examined

INDIA: Himachal Pradesh: Kangra , 32.09989°N, 76.269143°E, 6 exs ., 2 June 1926, leg . S .L. Hora [9450–9455/H4].

Distribution in India ( Figure 15 (b))

Himachal Pradesh ( Kangra Valley ), Meghalaya (Shillong, Mawphlong), and Uttarakhand (Chakrata) .

Global distribution

India, Laos, and Nepal.

Figures

Figure 7. Habitus (in dorsal view): (a) Gyrinus (Gyrinus) convexiusculus (Macleay); (b) G. (G.) distinctus Aubé; (c) G. smaragdinus Régimbart; (d) Metagyrinus arrowi (Régimbart); (e) Orectochilus castesi Régimbart; (f) O. murinus murinus Régimbart.

Figure 15. Map of India showing the distribution of Indian species of Gyrinidae: (a) Gyrinus convexiusculus, G. distinctus, G. smaragdinus; (b) Orectochilus assimilis, O. castesi, M. arrowi; (c) Patrus ahlwarthi, O. murinus murinus, O. murinus occidentalis, O. nuristanicus himalayensis, O. orbisonorum; (d) P. aenipennis, P. andamanarum, P. annandalei, P. brincki, P. cavernicola.