Sternolophus rufipes ( Fabricius, 1792 )

Hendrich, Lars & Balke, Michael, 2004, Aquatic Coleoptera Of Singapore: Species Richness, Ecology And Conservation #, Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 52 (1), pp. 97-145 : 129

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scientific name

Sternolophus rufipes ( Fabricius, 1792 )
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Sternolophus rufipes ( Fabricius, 1792) View in CoL

Hydrophilus rufipes Fabricius, 1792: 97 View in CoL . Tropisternus mergus Redtenbacher, 1844: 514 View in CoL ; Zaitzev, 1909: 230. Sternolophus fulvipes Motschulsky, 1853: 45 View in CoL ; Knisch, 1924b: 227. Sternolophus rufipes (Fabricius) View in CoL - Zaitzev, 1909: 229; Knisch,

1924b: 227; d’Orchymont, 1927: 252, 1932: 707; Fernando,

1964: 87; Gentili et al., 1995: 214; Hendrich & Yang, 1999:

260; Hansen, 1999: 208, and references therein. Hydrophilus sp. : Yang, 1991: 94.

Material examined. – 26 specimens – Central catchment area - 1 ex., Seletar Reservoir , October 1968 ( ZRC) ; 2 ex., Sime Road , 2 Jan.1969, coll. Koo & Lim ( ZRC) . Sungai Buloh – 23 ex., Sungai Buloh , November and December 1990, coll. C. M. Yang et al. ( ZRC) .

Distribution. – Widespread and common throughout Southeast Asia. In the Palearctic from Northern India, China, South Korea up to Japan ( Gentili et al., 1995; Hansen, 1999). Singapore (as Hydrophilus sp. Yang, 1991).

Ecology. – Sternolophus rufipes is a lentic species living among wet leaf litter, floating vegetation and roots in all kinds of shallow, stagnant or slow-flowing water. In many Southeast Asian countries the species is often attracted in large numbers to light.

SUBFAMILY SPHAERIDIINAE

TRIBE COELOSTOMATINI

ZRC

Zoological Reference Collection, National University of Singapore

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Coleoptera

Family

Hydrophilidae

Genus

Sternolophus

Loc

Sternolophus rufipes ( Fabricius, 1792 )

Hendrich, Lars & Balke, Michael 2004
2004
Loc

Hydrophilus rufipes

Knisch, A 1924: 227
Zaitzev, F 1909: 230
Zaitzev, F 1909: 229
Motschulsky, M 1853: 45
Redtenbacher, L 1844: 514
Fabricius, J 1792: 97
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