Patrus metallicus ( Régimbart, 1884 )

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 : 1318

Patrus metallicus ( Régimbart, 1884)

( Figures 11 (e), 18(d))

Orectochilus metallicus Régimbart, 1884, p. 418 , pl. 12, fig. 143; Régimbart 1886: 262; Régimbart 1891: pl. 18, fig. 11; Régimbart 1907: 206; Zimmermann 1917: 168; Peschet 1923: 13.

Orectochilus (Patrus) metallicus : Ochs 1930: 29, 1966a: 246; Vazirani 1984: 67, figs. 20C, 38B, 47C; Biswas et al. 1995: 131; Mazzoldi 2003: 29; Mukhopadhyay and Ghosh 2010: 272.

Patrus metallicus : Hájek and Fery 2017: 29, 2022: 8.

Type locality

India ( Régimbart 1884).

Material examined

INDIA: Arunachal Pradesh: Anjaw, Hawai , 27.915910°N, 96.78566°E, 15 exs ., 15 October 2023, leg . D . Gupta and party. West Bengal: Darjeeling, Mungpoo , 26.97297°N, 88.37011° E, 2 exs ., 31 October 1917, leg. N.A. and P.G. [982/H4]; Jalpaiguri, Ghumti , 26.52046°N, 88.719625°E, 2 exs ., 1 January 1914, leg . Lord Carmichael [987–988/H4] .

Distribution in India ( Figure 18 (e))

Arunachal Pradesh (Anjaw), Sikkim (Gangtok), Uttarakhand (Dehradun, Kumaon, Chakrata), and West Bengal (Darjeeling: Kurseong, Ghoom, Mongpoo, Pashok, Jalpaiguri).

Global distribution

China, Laos, India, and Nepal.

Figures

Figure 11. Habitus (in dorsal view): (a) Patrus haemorrhous haemorrhous (Régimbart); (b) P. horni (Ochs); (c) P. limbatus (Régimbart); (d) P. marginipennis angustilimbus (Ochs); (e) P. metallicus (Régimbart); (f) P. neglectus (Ochs).

Figure 18. Map of India showing the distribution of Indian species of Gyrinidae. (a) P. neglectus, P. cribratellus cribratellus, P. cribratellus metallescens; (b) P. similis, P. ritsemai; (c) P. limbatus; (d) P. ribeiroi, P. marginipennis angustilimbus, P. marginipennis marginipennis, P. nathani, P. metallicus, P. uttarpradeshensis.