Patrus limbatus ( 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 : 1316-1317

Patrus limbatus ( Régimbart, 1884)

( Figures 11 (c), 18(c))

Orectochilus limbatus Régimbart, 1884, p. 424 ; Régimbart 1907: 211; Ochs 1929b: 243; Vazirani 1958: 16; Mukherjee 1966: 62; Shankar et al. 2023: 459, fig. 29.

Orectochilus gravelyi Ochs, 1925: 199 .

Orectochilus (Patrus) limbatus : Ochs 1930: 27; Vazirani 1984: 52, figs. 19B, 36B, 46B; Kazmi and Ramamurthy 2004: 1447; Mukhopadhyay and Ghosh 2015: 464.

Patrus limbatus : Hájek and Skale, 2015: 170, figs. 1–2: Hájek and Fery 2017: 29, 2019: 7, 2022: 7.

Type locality

Ind. Orient ( Régimbart 1884).

Material examined

INDIA: Bihar: Patna, 25.61501°N, 85.151501°E, 6 exs ., 18 February 1954, leg . A .P. Kapur [11525/H4]. Jharkhand: Pashchimi Singhbhum, Chakradharpur, 22.67662°N, 85.625503°E, 3 exs ., 10 November 1918, leg. N.A. and F.G. [1006/H4]; Pashchimi Singhbhum, Kumdih , 22.54788°N, 85.274889°E, 30 exs ., 25 February 1964, leg . A .P. Kapur [11520/H4]; Khunti, 23.08038°N, 85.27736°E, 5 exs., 17 February 1954, leg . A .P . Kapur [11521/H4]; Godda, Manoharpur , 24.92643°N, 87.327654°E, 18 exs ., 26 February 1954, leg . A .P . Kapur [11522/H4]; Ranchi, Horhap , 23.33097°N, 85.467085°E, 18 exs ., 6 February 1954, leg . A .P. Kapur [11523–11524/H4]. Madhya Pradesh: Bhopal, Raipur, 23.4299°N, 77.414972°E, 1 ex ., 1 March 1927, leg . H .S . Pruthi [1007/H4]; Balaghat, Koilari , 21.66726°N, 79.610988°E, 4 exs ., 1 November 1927, leg . H .S . Pruthi [1020/H4]; Chhindwara, Mohgaon , 21.64066°N, 78.734917°E, 1 ex ., 17 November 1927, leg . H .S . Pruthi [916/H4]; Chhindwara, Mohgaon , 21.64066°N, 78.734917°E, 11 exs ., 9 June 1927, leg . B .N . Chopra [917–919/H4]; Anuppur, Amarkantak , 22.68223°N, 81.753222°E, 2 exs ., 1 January 1927, leg . H .S. Pruthi [990/H4]; Jabalpur, 23.17657°N, 79.949311°E, 1 ex., 29 March 1962, leg . P . Singh [4375/H4A]. Maharashtra: Mumbai Central, 18.96933°N, 72.819948°E, 1 ex ., 3 November 1965, leg. T. G. Vazirani [4833/H4A] . Uttar Pradesh: Muzafarnagar, Mandla, 29.61054°N, 77.820865°E, 2 exs ., 4 November 1963, leg . J .S. Bhatti [2914–2915/H4A]. Uttarakhand: Dehradun, 30.32459°N, 78.033271°E, 1 ex ., 18 February 1965, leg. T.D. Soota [4730/H4A] .

Distribution in India ( Figure 18 (c))

Andhra Pradesh (Koundinya Wildlife Sanctuary: Kamalapalli, Galapalli, Kottur Thanda, Keeramanda), Bihar (Patna), Chhattisgarh (Amarkantak), Jharkhand (Chaibasa, Singhbhumi: Chakradharpur, Sanjai River , Ranchi, Damodar River , Gurmani River , Hazaribagh, Santal Parganas, Godda, Khunti), Kerala ( Silent Valley National Park ), Madhya Pradesh (Anuppur: Koilari, Khetgaon; Bhopal, Balaghat, Chhindwara, Mandla, Rewa, Jabalpur, Narmadapuram ‘Hoshangabad’, Narsinghpur, Umaria: Jaithari Range), Maharashtra (Matheran, Charlotte Lake , Ratnagiri, Koyna and Venna Valley , Pune, Satara, Nasik, Mumbai), Odisha (Angul, Talcher, Gurguria), Rajasthan (Jodhpur: Kailana Lake, Morel River), Tamil Nadu (Nilgiri Hills: Mettupalayam), Telangana, Uttar Pradesh (Mirzapur, Muzafarnagar), and Uttarakhand (Dehradun) .

Global distribution

Sri Lanka, India, and Iran.

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.