Patrus desgodinsi desgodinsi ( Régimbart, 1886 )

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 : 1310

Patrus desgodinsi desgodinsi ( Régimbart, 1886)

( Figures 10 (c), 16(d))

Orectochilus desgodinsi Régimbart, 1886, p. 260 , pl. 4, fig. 10; Zimmermann 1917: 166; Ochs 1925: 194.

Orectochilus (Patrus) desgodinsi desgodinsi : Ochs 1930: 23; Vazirani 1984: 43, figs. 18A, 35A, D, 45B, E; Mazzoldi 2003: 29; Biswas et al. 1995: 129; Mukhopadhyay and Ghosh 2003: 22.

Patrus desgodinsi desgodinsi : Hájek and Fery 2017: 28, 2019: 7, 2022: 7.

Type locality

Sikkim, Pedong ( Régimbart 1886).

Material examined

INDIA: Uttar Pradesh: Gorakhpur , 26.76234°N, 83.378254°E, 6 exs ., 1 November 1927, leg . H .S. Pruthi [1012/H4]. West Bengal: Darjeeling , 27.036°N, 88.262776°E, 1 ex ., 27. November 1916, leg . L .B. Hartless [927/H4], 1 ex . , 24 September 1941 [4824/H4A]; Darjeeling, Kurseong , 26.88214°N, 88.278851°E, 3 exs., 24 November 1941, leg . H .A. Hafiz [4830–4832/H4A].

Distribution in India ( Figure 16 (d))

Bihar (Buxar), Sikkim, Uttar Pradesh (Gorakhpur), and West Bengal (Darjeeling, Pedong, Kalimpong, Mungpoo, Pashok, Ghumti).

Global distribution

Bhutan, India, and Nepal.

Remarks

This is the first record for this species from Uttar Pradesh.

Figures

Figure 10. Habitus (in dorsal view): (a) P. cribratellus cribratellus (Régimbart); (b) Patrus cuneatus (Régimbart); (c) P. desgodinsi desgodinsi (Régimbart); (d) Patrus discifer (Walker); (e) P. fletcheri (Ochs); (f) P. gangeticus (Wiedemann).

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.