Zorochros quadrimaculatus ( Vats & Chauhan, 1991 ) SDI, 2025

Parekar, Harshad & Patwardhan, Amol, 2025, Annotated catalogue of the click-beetle subfamilies Hemiopinae, Hypnoidinae, Lissominae, Negastriinae, Tetralobinae, and Thylacosterninae (Coleoptera: Elateridae) of India, Zootaxa 5679 (2), pp. 151-203 : 178

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5679.2.1
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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17050194
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scientific name	Zorochros quadrimaculatus ( Vats & Chauhan, 1991 ) SDI
status	comb. nov.

Treatment

Zorochros quadrimaculatus ( Vats & Chauhan, 1991) SDI comb. nov.

Hypnoidus quadrimaculatus Vats & Chauhan, 1991: 294 (original description; published type locality: Saknidhar, India); Cate, 2007: 194 (considered as Doubtful Assignment; classified under Negastriinae incertae sedis; catalogue; “UP” as India: Uttaranchal, Uttar Pradesh); Gupta et al., 2018: 502 (catalogue; “2B” as India: Himachal Pradesh, Uttarakhand).

Type Locality. India: Saknidhar, Tehri Garhwal District , Uttarakhand [India: Uttar Pradesh, Saknidhar] .

Type Depository. Holotype, M (??); Allotype, F (??); 3 Paratypes, 1 M, 2 F (??).

Distribution in India. Uttarakhand (Tehri Garhwal District).

General Distribution. India.

Remark. The type material for Hypnoidus quadrimaculatus is not deposited in FRID and may be housed in IARI; however, verification was not possible. As the presence of this species in Himachal Pradesh requires confirmation, this locality is not included here. Hypnoidus quadrimaculatus was described by Vats & Chauhan (1991: 294) based on morphological characters and an aedeagus structure that do not support its placement in the genus Hypnoidus ( Stibick 1976) . Based on the original description and illustration of the aedeagus ( Vats & Chauhan 1991: 298, Fig. 1 View FIGURES 1–6 ), this species is herein transferred to the genus Zorochros , and we propose Zorochros quadrimaculatus ( Vats & Chauhan, 1991) comb. nov. Morphologically, this species is most similar to Zorochros tactus ( Candèze, 1900) . Z. quadrimaculatus is considered endemic to India.