Patrus aenipennis ( Régimbart, 1907 ), Gupta & Sonali & Wani & Ghosh & Ghosh & Ghosh, 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 : 1303-1304

Patrus aenipennis ( Régimbart, 1907) comb. n.

( Figure 15 (d))

Orectochilus aenipennis Régimbart, 1907, p. 217 ; Nowrojee 1912: 180; Zimmermann 1917: 168.

Orectochilus (Patrus) aenipennis : Ochs 1930: 19; Vazirani 1977b: 280, 1984: 98, figs. 28A, 41C.

Type locality

Region occidentale de I’Inde: Kanara ( Régimbart 1907) .

Distribution in India ( Figure 15 (d))

Karnataka (Kanara, Bangaluru) and Maharashtra (Ratnagiri).

Figures

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.