Patrus annandalei ( Ochs, 1925 )

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 : 1304

Patrus annandalei ( Ochs, 1925)

( Figures 8 (b), 15(d))

Orectochilus annandalei Ochs, 1925, p. 203 .

Orectochilus (Patrus) annandalei : Ochs 1930: 20; Vazirani 1984: 106, figs. 30B, 43A, 49D. Patrus annandalei : Liang et al. 2021: 23, fig. 11; Hájek and Fery 2022: 7.

Type locality

South India, Travancore, W side of Western Ghats , Tenmalai ( Ochs 1925) .

Type material

‘ Type // Ind . Mus./ Tenmalai/W. Ghats (W. side)/ Travancore /22–xi–02 // Orectochilus annandalei Ochs // 3358/20’ [ NZSI] . Two co-types with the same label and locality data [ NZSI] .

Distribution in India ( Figure 15 (d))

Tamil Nadu (Nilgiri Hills: Mettupalaiyam) and Kerala (Travancore: Tenmalai, Nilambur).

Global distribution

China, India, Myanmar, and Vietnam.

Figures

Figure 8. Habitus of type specimens (in dorsal view) with attached label data: (a) Orectochilus andamanicus Régimbart, co-type [current name: P. andamanicus (Régimbart)]; (b) O. annandalei Ochs, type [current name: P. annandalei]; (c) O. scalaris andamanarum Ochs, type [current name: P. andamanarum]; (d) O. cavernicola Ochs, type [current name: P. cavernicola].

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.