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Copelatus oblitus Sharp 1882

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Copelatus oblitus Sharp, 1882

Copelatus oblitus Sharp, 1882: 582.

Copelatus andamanicus Régimbart, 1899: 302; synonymy by Hendrich et al. (2004: 118).

Copelatus sociennus ryukyuensis Satô, 1961: 8; synonymy by Hendrich et al. (2004: 118).

Copelatus subfasciatus Zimmermann, 1919: 76; synonymy by Hendrich et al. (2004: 118).

Copelatus tokaraensis Nakane, 1963: 25; synonymy by Hendrich et al. (2004: 118).

Copelatus karnatakus Holmen & Vazirani, 1990: 27; new synonymy.

Type localities. Copelatus oblitus: " Singapore ". C. karnatakus: " India, Karnataka, Mudigere Area".

Type material. Copelatus oblitus: Holotype ♂ (BMNH), labelled: " Type [p, round label with red frame] // Singapore / 695 [hw] // Sharp Coll. / 1905-313. [p] // Type 695 DS. / Copelatus / oblitus n.sp. / Singapore [hw]".

Copelatus karnatakus: Holotype ♂ (ZMUC), labelled: "S.India: Karnataka / Mudigere area, c. 900 m / 2– 1o. xi.1977 / Zool.Mus.Copenhagen Exp. [p] // Holo- / type [p, round label with red margin] // Copelatus / karnatakus / sp. n. [hw] / det. T.G. Vazirani, 198 [p] 2 [hw] / m. Holmen [hw] // zmuc00020126 [p]".

Additional material studied. India: 1♂, Uttarakhand, Kumaon district, Haldwani, H.G. Champion (BMNH).

Comments on classification. Holmen & Vazirani (1990) diagnosed C. karnatakus as a member of the C. irinus species group with characteristic shape of median lobe with characteristic dorsal (ventral in current concept) projection. Apparently, they were not aware of the widespread C. oblitus. The direct comparison of the two holotypes undoubtedly proved that they are identical. Therefore, we establish the following synonymy: Copelatus oblitus Sharp, 1882 = C. karnatakus Holmen & Vazirani, 1990 syn. nov.

Distribution. Widely distributed species ranging in the Oriental region from India to Sulawesi, and also reaching southern China and Japan in the Palaearctic region. First record from Indian state of Uttarakhand.

Notes

Published as part of Sheth, Sayali D., Ghate, Hemant V. & Hájek, Jiří, 2018, Copelatus Erichson, 1832 from Maharashtra, India, with description of three new species and notes on other taxa of the genus (Coleoptera: Dytiscidae: Copelatinae), pp. 235-260 in Zootaxa 4459 (2) on page 255, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4459.2.2, http://zenodo.org/record/1458548

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Collection code
BMNH
Family
Dytiscidae
Genus
Copelatus
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Coleoptera
Phylum
Arthropoda
Scientific name authorship
Sharp
Species
oblitus
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Copelatus oblitus Sharp, 1882 sec. Sheth, Ghate & Hájek, 2018

References

  • Sharp, D. (1882) On aquatic carnivorous Coleoptera or Dytiscidae. Scientific Transactions of the Royal Dublin Society, Series 2, 2, 179 - 1003, pls. 7 - 18.
  • Regimbart, M. (1899) Revision des Dytiscidae de la region Indo- Sino-Malaise. Annales de la Societe Entomologique de France, 68, 186 - 367.
  • Hendrich, L., Balke, M. & Yang, C. M. (2004) Aquatic Coleoptera of Singapore: Species richness, ecology and conservation. The Raffles Bulletin of Zoology, 52 (1), 97 - 145.
  • Sato, M. (1961) Aquatic Coleoptera from Amami-Oshima of the Ryukyu Islands (II). Akitu, 10, 7 - 10.
  • Zimmermann, A. (1919) H. Sauter's Formosa-Ausbeute: Haliplidae et Dytiscidae (Col.). Entomologische Mitteilungen, 8, 75 - 77. https: // doi. org / 10.5962 / bhl. part. 27264
  • Nakane, T. (1963) New or little-known Coleoptera from Japan and its adjacent regions. XVIII. Fragmenta Coleopterologica, 6, 23 - 26.
  • Holmen, M. & Vazirani, T. G. (1990) Notes on the genera Neptosternus Sharp and Copelatus Erichson from Sri Lanka and India with the description of new species (Coleoptera: Dytiscidae). Koleopterologische Rundschau, 60, 19 - 32.