Patrus neglectus ( Ochs, 1925 ), 2021

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 : 1319

Patrus neglectus ( Ochs, 1925)

( Figures 11 (f), 18(a))

Orectochilus neglectus Ochs, 1925, p. 199 ; Shankar et al. 2023: 459, fig. 30.

Orectochilus (Patrus) neglectus : Ochs 1930: 30; Vazirani 1984: 54, figs. 19C, 36C; Mazzoldi 2003: 29; Mukhopadhyay and Ghosh 2010: 271.

Patrus neglectus : Hájek and Fery 2017: 29, 2019: 7, 2022: 8.

Type locality

W. Himalayas, Naini Tal Dt., Bareni ( Ochs 1925).

Material examined

INDIA: Himachal Pradesh: Solan, Kasauli , 30.90008°N, 76.96243°E, 2 exs ., 1 January 1929, leg . S .M . Puri [1014/H4]; Solan , 30.90593°N, 77.097321°E, 2 exs ., 05 May 1997, leg . H .P. Agrawal [20743/H4A].

Distribution in India ( Figure 18 (a))

Andhra Pradesh (Koundinya Wildlife Sanctuary: Galapalli), Himachal Pradesh (Shimla, Kasauli, Dharampur, Koara), Haryana (Punchkula: Kalka), Punjab (Ambala, Patiala, Ludhiana), and Uttarakhand (Nainital, Almora, Kumaon, Kathgodam).

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.