Berosus (Berosus) pulchellus MacLeay, 1825

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Berosus (Berosus) pulchellus MacLeay, 1825

Berosus pulchellus MacLeay, 1825: 35 ; Satô 1977: 202; Satô 1972b: 50; Schödl 1993: 215, figs., 13a, b; Roy 1982: 57; Biswas & Mukhopadhyay 1995: 163; Hansen 1999a: 92; Mukhopadhyay et al. 2000: 89; Biswas 2002: 74; Mukhopadhyay & Sengupta 2003: 42; Mukhopadhyay & Sengupta 2004: 457; Hansen 2004: 47; Hendrich et al. 2004: 124 ; Kazmi & Ramamurthy 2004: 1447; Mukhopadhyay 2007: 414; Ghosh et al. 2010: 95; Mukhopadhyay 2010: 333; Ghosh 2011a: 23; Ghosh 2011c: 161; Jaiswal 2012: 39; Jaiswal et al. 2013: 25; Ghosh & Hegde 2013a: 65; Ghosh & Hegde 2013b: 22; Jaiswal et al. 2014: 96; Ghosh 2014: 58; Ghosh & Mitra 2014: 67; Mukhopadhyay 2015: 389; Fikáček et al. 2015c: 38; Ghosh et al. 2016: 23; Devi et al. 2017: 10; Ghosh et al. 2018a: 441; Ghosh et al. 2018b: 28; Ghosh et al. 2020: 230; Anamika et al. 2021: 185; Ghosh 2022: 494; Przewoźny 2022: 11; Ghosh & Gupta 2022: 118. Sonali et al. 2022: 341; Ghosh et al. 2023: 161; Deb et al. 2023: 24047; Sheth et al. 2024: 24862.

Berosus pubescens Mulsant & Rey, 1858: 319 .

Berosus decrescens Walker, 1859: 258 .

Berosus vestitus Sharp, 1884: 456 .

Type locality: Indonesia, Java ( Schödl 1993) .

Distribution in India: Andaman and Nicobar Islands (North and South Andaman, Great Nicobar Island), Andhra

Pradesh ( East Godavari , Nellore), Assam, Bihar (Pusa, Lohardaga, Kabar Lake, Bhagalpur), Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu, Delhi, Goa (Benauli Beach), Haryana (Karnal), Himachal Pradesh (Kangra, Sirmour, Renuka

Wildlife Sanctuary), Jammu and Kashmir (Jammu), Karnataka (Jog Falls, Belgaum, North Kanara ), Kerala (Malabar) ,

Lakshadeep (Kavaratti), Madhya Pradesh (Jabalpur, Khargone), Maharashtra (Kahndesh, Nagpur, Bombay, Pune,

Nashik, Raigad, Sindhudurg), Manipur (Churachandpur), Meghalaya, Nagaland, Odisha (Satkosia and Basipally

Wildlife Sanctuary, Chilika Lake), Puducherry ( Karaikal), Punjab, Rajasthan (Bharatpur, Sikar), Sikkim (Jorethang,

Rongpo), Tamil Nadu ( Tranquebar), Telangana (Hyderabad: Durgam Cheruvu), Uttarakhand (Haridwar, Haldwani,

Dehradun, Ranibagh, Tanakpur, Tehri Garhwal), Uttar Pradesh (Allahabad, Balia, Varanasi, Shahjahanpur, Pilibhit,

Rampur, Aligarh, Hardoi, Sultanpur, Lucknow, Balia, Gazipur, Dudhwa Tiger Reserve, Surhatal Wildlife Sanctuary,

Sandi BS, Tanakpur, Fyzabad), and West Bengal (Bardhman, Darjeeling, Kolkata, Sunderban Biosphere Reserve).

Global distribution: Australia, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Cambodia, China, Indonesia, India, Iran, Japan, Laos, Malaysia,

Myanmar, Nepal, Pakistan, Philippines, Saudi Arabia, Sri Lanka, Singapore, Taiwan, Thailand, and Vietnam.

Subgenus Enoplurus Hope, 1838

Enoplurus Hope, 1838: 128 (Type species: Hydrophilus spinosus Steven, 1808 ).

Anchialus Thomson, 1859: 17 (Type species: Hydrophilus spinosus Steven, 1808 ).

Acanthoberosus Kuwert, 1888c: 130 (Type species: Hydrophilus spinosus Steven, 1808 ).