Patrus volubilis ( Ochs, 1929a ), 2025

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 : 1326

Patrus volubilis ( Ochs, 1929a) comb. n.

( Figures 13 (d), 19(c))

Orectochilus volubilis Ochs, 1929a, p. 252 .

Orectochilus (Patrus) volubilis : Ochs 1930: 35; Vazirani 1984: 103, figs. 29C, 42C, 49B.

Type locality

Assam, Shillong ( Ochs 1929a).

Type material

‘ Assam / Shillong / 4,500 –5,000 ft . // Type // 921H4 // Orectochilus volubilis Ochs’ [ NZSI]. Another specimen with the same locality and label data [920H4] [ NZSI] .

Figures

Figure 13. Habitus of type specimens (in dorsal view) with attached label data:(a) Orectochilus orissaensis Vazirani, holotype [current name: P. orissaensis (Vazirani)]; (b) O. ribeiroi (Vazirani), holotype [current name: P. ribeiroi (Vazirani)]; (c) O. similis Ochs, type [current name: P. similis (Ochs)]; (d) O. volubilis (Ochs) [current name: P. volubilis (Ochs)].