Amphiops mater Sharp, 1873

Shankar, Shiva, Kumar, Devadoss, Deepa, Jaiswal, Madasamy, Karuthapandi, Jadhav, Shrikant & Kunte, Kalyani B., 2023, Aquatic beetles (Insecta, Coleoptera) of Koundinya wildlife sanctuary, Andhra Pradesh, India, Journal of Insect Biodiversity and Systematics 9 (3), pp. 449-467 : 459

publication ID

https://doi.org/10.52547/jibs.9.3.449

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:40A9D36E-AD96-46AA-B676-8C3F6D6E0A50

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17024299

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/FC3A87E0-FFD7-EF33-7AAE-57300EFD91E0

treatment provided by

Felipe

scientific name

Amphiops mater Sharp, 1873
status

 

Amphiops mater Sharp, 1873 View in CoL ( Fig. 31)

Material examined: 1♂, Kamalapalli ( 12°48'50.4''N, 78°31'54.48''E), 28.xi.2022, Reg. No. FBRC /ZSI/ INS/3481 GoogleMaps ; 1♂, 3♀♀, Galapalli ( 12°52'58.44''N, 78°33'39.24''E), 19.xi.2022, Reg. No. FBRC /ZSI/ INS/3502 GoogleMaps ; 1♀, Kottur Thanda ( 12°53'45.96"N, 78°35'4.92"E), 30.xi.2022, Reg. No. FBRC /ZSI/INS/3506 GoogleMaps ; 4♂♂, 5♀♀, Kalyani Revu Waterfall ( 13°2'49.2''N, 78°42'20.16''E), 3.xii.2022, Leg.: J. Deepa & S. Shankar, Reg. No. FBRC /ZSI/INS/3515 GoogleMaps .

Distribution: Australian ( Australia); Oriental ( Bangladesh, India [AP, DL, HP, JK, MN, SK, TS, WB], Malaysia, Nepal, Philippines, Sri Lanka, Vietnam); Palaearctic ( China, Iran, Japan) ( Mukhopadhyay, 2015).

Remarks. Amphiops mater and A. simplex are two water scavenger beetle species reported from India ( Mukhopadhyay, 2015). Amphiops mater is a new distributional record to the state of Andhra Pradesh.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Coleoptera

Family

Hydrophilidae

Genus

Amphiops

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