Hemiops flava Laporte, 1838 SRI

Hemiops flava Laporte, 1838 SRI

Hemiops flava Laporte, 1838: 15 (original description; published type locality: Chine); Candèze, 1890: clvi (distributional record; India: Jharkhand); Fleutiaux,1905: 330 (distributional record; India: Puducherry); Fleutiaux, 1918: 275 (distributional record; India: Assam, Sikkim); Schenkling, 1927: 504 (catalogue; “ Bengalen ”, “Hindostan”); Ôhira, 1971: 209 (“ India, Assam, Sikkim ”); Vats & Kashyap, 1992a: 249 (distributional records; India: Haryana, Uttarakhand); Chakraborty & Chakrabarti, 2006: 91 (distributional record; India: West Bengal); Mukhopadhyay & Chakraborty, 2003: 229 (distributional record; India: Sikkim); Cate, 2007: 186 (catalogue; “SD” as India: Sikkim, Darjeeling District); Gupta et al., 2018: 502 (catalogue; “2C” as India: Sikkim, Darjeeling District).

Hemiops plana Laporte, 1840: 254 (original brief description; published type locality: Chine); Fleutiaux, 1903: 580 (synonymised with H. flava ).

Hemiops lutea Germar, 1843: 52 (original description; published type locality: Java); Fleutiaux, 1903: 580 (synonymised with H. flava ); Schimmel, 1996a: 165 (designated Lectotype; “ Java ”).

Type Locality. Hemiops flava . China *; Hemiops plana . China *; Hemiops lutea . Java*.

Type Depository. Hemiops flava : Type, SU (??). Hemiops plana : Type, SU (??). Hemiops lutea : Lectotype, SU ( MFNB); 1 Paralectotype, SU ( MFNB).

Distribution in India. Assam **, Haryana (Panchkula District, Yamunanagar District), Jharkhand (Gumla District), Puducherry (Mahe District), Sikkim **, Uttarakhand (Chamoli District), West Bengal (Alipurduar District).

General Distribution. Cambodia, China, India, Indonesia (Borneo, Java, Sumatra), Japan, Laos, Myanmar, Nepal, Philippines, Taiwan (Formosa) ( Schenkling 1927; Ôhira 1970, 1971; Cate 2007).

Remark. Based on the information provided by Candèze (1890: cxlvi) and Parekar et al. (2024: 57), the locality is added as Jharkhand. Konbir is a village in the Gumla district of Jharkhand.