Patrus kempi ( Ochs, 1925 )

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 : 1315

Patrus kempi ( Ochs, 1925)

( Figures 9 (d), 19(c))

Orectochilus kempi Ochs, 1925, p. 198 .

Orectochilus (Patrus) kempi : Ochs 1930: 27; Vazirani 1984: 59; Mazzoldi 2003: 29.

Patrus kempi : Hájek and Fery 2017: 29, 2019: 7, 2022: 7.

Type locality

Yembung, Abor ( Ochs, 1925).

Type material

‘ Type // Yembung/ 1,100 feet /Abor Exp. Kemp/8–9–11–12 // 3053/20 // Orectochilus kempi Ochs’ [ NZSI].

Distribution in India ( Figure 19 (c))

Arunachal Pradesh ( East Siang : Yembung) .

Figures

Figure 9. Habitus of type specimens (in dorsal view) with attached label data: (a) Orectochilus choprai Ochs, 1925, type [current name:P. choprai (Ochs,1925)]; (b) O. coronatus Ochs, 1925, type [current name: P. coronatus (Ochs, 1925)]; (c) O. desgodinsi assamensis Ochs, 1925, type [current name: P. desgodinsi assamensis (Ochs, 1925)]; (d) O. kempi Ochs, 1925, type [current name: P. kempi (Ochs, 1925)].

Figure 19. Map of India showing the distribution of Indian species of Gyrinidae. (a) P. oblongiusculus oblongiusculus, P. orissaensis, P. punctulatus; (b) P. productus; (c) P. horni, P. kempi, P. lucidus, P. rivularis, P. volubilis; (d) P. semivestitus.