Copelatus sociennus Balfour-Browne, 1952

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 : 452

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.17024231
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/FC3A87E0-FFDE-EF3A-7A5D-574E0EFF91EB
treatment provided by	Felipe
scientific name	Copelatus sociennus Balfour-Browne, 1952
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Copelatus sociennus Balfour-Browne, 1952 View in CoL ( Fig. 4)

Material examined: 1♂, 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/3530 GoogleMaps .

Distribution: Oriental ( India [AP, TS, UK], Sri Lanka); Palaearctic ( China) ( Ghosh & Nilsson, 2012; Sayali et al., 2018; Deepa et al., 2022a).

Remarks. Copelatus sociennus was reported from Bangalore, Karnataka as C. bangalorensis (Vazirani, 1970) , later synonymized with C. sociennus ( Sayali et al., 2018) based on the type from China and India.