Patrus choprai ( Ochs, 1925 ), 2025

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 : 1306

Patrus choprai ( Ochs, 1925) comb. n.

( Figures 9 (a), 16(b))

Orectochilus choprai Ochs, 1925, p. 197 .

Orectochilus (Patrus) choprai : Ochs 1930: 21; Vazirani 1977c: 292, 1984: 68, figs. 20D, 37E, 47B.

Type locality

Assam, Garo Hills, Siju Cave ( Ochs 1925) .

Type material

‘ Type // Siju Cave /Garo Hills/ Assam /S .K. and B.N.C./Feb, 1922/ 2000 ft. from entrance // 8186/H4A // Orectochilus choprae Ochs’ [ NZSI].

Distribution in India ( Figure 16 (b))

Meghalaya (Garo Hills, Siju Cave ) and Odisha (Angul) .

Figures

Figure 9. Habitus of type specimens (in dorsal view) with attached label data: (a) Orectochilus choprai Ochs, 1925, type [current name:P. choprai (Ochs,1925)]; (b) O. coronatus Ochs, 1925, type [current name: P. coronatus (Ochs, 1925)]; (c) O. desgodinsi assamensis Ochs, 1925, type [current name: P. desgodinsi assamensis (Ochs, 1925)]; (d) O. kempi Ochs, 1925, type [current name: P. kempi (Ochs, 1925)].

Figure 16. Map of India showing the distribution of Indian species of Gyrinidae: (a) P. andamanicus, P. indicus; (b) P. choprai, P. coimbatorensis, P. cuneatus; (c) P. coronatus, P. cylindricus, P. cameroni; (d) P. cardoni, P. desgodinsi assamensis, P. desgodinsi desgodinsi.