Patrus fletcheri ( Ochs, 1925 ), 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 : 1312-1313

Patrus fletcheri ( Ochs, 1925) comb. n.

( Figures 10 (e), 17(c))

Orectochilus fletcheri Ochs, 1925, p. 201 ; Ochs 1929b: 243; Vazirani 1958: 17.

Orectochilus (Patrus) fletcheri : Ochs 1930: 25; Vazirani 1977a: 252, 280, 1984: 87, figs. 25A, 40A, 48B; Biswas et al. 1995: 132.

Type locality

S. Malabar, Kollengade, from tank–bund ( Ochs 1925).

Material examined

INDIA: Himachal Pradesh: Sirmaur, Renuka Lake , 30.61016°N, 77.45833°E, 13 exs ., 10 May 2012, leg . B . Biswas [20713, 20,729–20742/H4A] . Jharkhand: Pashchimi Singhbhum, Chakradharpur , 22.67662°N, 85.625503°E, 1 ex ., 8 February 1918, leg . N . Annandale and F .H . Gravely [998/H4]; Ranchi, Horhap , 23.33097°N, 85.467085°E, 2 exs ., 6 February 1954, leg . A .P . Kapur [11526/H4]; Ranchi , 23.3441°N, 85.309562°E, 6 exs ., 28 January 1954, leg . A . P . Kapur [4745–4750/H4A] . Uttarakhand: Chamoli, Nanda Devi Hills , 30.54104°N, 79.971576°E, 1 ex ., 18 November 2012, leg . K .A . Subramanian [20712/H4A] .

Distribution in India ( Figure 17 (c))

Bihar, Himachal Pradesh (Sirmaur, Renuka Lake), Jharkhand (Singhbhoom: Chaibassa; Chakradharpur: Sanjai River, Santal Parganas, Ranchi), Kerala ( South Malabar ), Madhya Pradesh (Annupur: Koilari, Jabalpur, Narsinghpur, Hoshangabad), Maharashtra, Uttarakhand (Chamoli), and West Bengal ( Brahmani River , Nadia, Medinipur) .

Figures

Figure 10. Habitus (in dorsal view): (a) P. cribratellus cribratellus (Régimbart); (b) Patrus cuneatus (Régimbart); (c) P. desgodinsi desgodinsi (Régimbart); (d) Patrus discifer (Walker); (e) P. fletcheri (Ochs); (f) P. gangeticus (Wiedemann).

Figure 17. Map of India showing the distribution of Indian species of Gyrinidae: (a) P. discifer; (b) P. gangeticus, P. dilatatus; (c) P. figuratus, P. fletcheri; (d) P. haemorrhous haemorrhous.