Patrus cuneatus ( Régimbart, 1892b )

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 : 1308-1309

Patrus cuneatus ( Régimbart, 1892b)

( Figures 10 (b), 16(b))

Orectochilus cuneatus Régimbart, 1892b, p. 702 ; Régimbart 1907: 202; Zimmermann 1917: 166; Ochs 1925: 702; Vazirani 1958: 17.

Orectochilus (Patrus) cuneatus : Ochs 1930: 23, 1966a: 244; Vazirani 1984: 55; Biswas et al. 1995: 130; Mukhopadhyay and Ghosh 2003: 22; Mukhopadhyay and Ghosh 2010: 271.

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

Type locality

Pedong, Sikkim ( Régimbart 1892b).

Material examined

INDIA: Himachal Pradesh: Solan, 30.90593°N, 77.097321°E, 7 exs ., 05 May 1971, leg . H .P . Agrawal [20714–20716; 20,744–20745/H4A]; Sirmaur, Renuka Lake , 30.61016°N, 77.45833° E, 1 ex ., 10 May 2012, leg . B . Biswas [20717/H4A]. West Bengal: Darjeeling, 27.036 N, 88.262776E, 1 ex ., 1 June 1913, leg . Lord Carmichael [981/H4]; Darjeeling, Pashok , 27.07072°N, 88.394636°E, 3 exs ., 14 April 1916, leg . F .H . Gravely [997/H4]; Darjeeling, Kalimpong , 27.05977°N, 88.471383°E, 3 exs ., 10 May 1915, leg . F .H. Gravely [1016/H4].

Distribution in India ( Figure 16 (b))

Himachal Pradesh (Shimla, Solan, Renuka Lake, Dharampur), Kerala, Punjab (Patiala), Sikkim, Uttarakhand (Kumaon, Kathgodam, Kumaon, Dehradun, Dwaharat, Almora), and West Bengal (Darjeeling: Kurseong, Kalimpong, Pashok, Pedong, Sukna, Singla, Teesta Valley ) .

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.