Haliplus (Liaphlus) fulvus (Fabricius 1801:271)
Type specimens
Type presumed lost (Zimsen 1964).
Synonymy
Haliplus fulvus (Fabricius 1801:271)
- Dytiscus fulvus Fabricius 1801:271
- Dytiscus interpunctatus Marsham 1802:429
- Haliplus ferrugincus Gyllenhal 1808:546
- Haliplus lapponum Thomson 1854:184
- Haliplus pyraeneus Delarouzee 1857:xcv
- Haliplus lapponum var niger Seidlitz 1887:51
- Haliplus fulvus var. carlittensis Regimbart 1901:323
- Haliplus maculipennis Regimbart 1877:356, nec Schaum 1864:107
- Haliplus fulvus var. multistriatus Scholz 1915:232
- Haliplus pyrenaeus Delarouzee 1857:xcv, Zimmermann 1920:308, mis-spelling
- Haliplus fulvus var. sparre-schneideri Munster 1922:15
- Haliplus fulvus var. unicolor Munster 1922:14
- Haliplus salinarius Wallis 1933:56, by Van Vondel 1991:103, but see comment by Holmen 1987:116
- Haliplus ferrugineus auctt., nec Linnaeus 1767, mis-identification
Distribution
Holarctic: All of Europe from Iceland to Siberia, south to Morocco and Kazakhstan; Canada: British Columbia; and United States: Colorado, Minnesota, and North Dakota. The North American records were previously referred to Haliplus salinarius Wallis 1933.
Literature Cited
Delarouzee, C.
- 1857. Bulletin entomologique 3e Trimestre 1857. Ann. Soc. Entomol. France 5:xciv-xcv.
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- 1801. Systema Eleutheratorium, etc. 1. Hafniae.
Gordon, R. D., and R. L. Post.
- 1965. North Dakota water beetles. North Dakota State Univ. Agric. Exp. Sta. Dept. Entomol. North Dakota Insects Publ. 5. 53 pp.
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- 1988. Haliplidae of Minnesota, USA. Sci. Publ. Sci. Mus. Minnesota
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Gyllenhal, L.
- 1808. Insecta Suecica, Coleoptera 1. Leverentz, Scaris. xii + 572 pp.
Holmen, M.
- 1987. The aquatic Adephaga (Coleoptera) of Fennoscandia and Denmark. I. Gyrinidae, Haliplidae, Hygrobiidae and Noteridae. Fauna Entomol. Scandinavica 20:1-168.
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- 1767. Systema Naturae, 12th ed. Laur. Salvii, Holmiae. 553-1327.
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- 1922. Om nogle Haliplidae. Videnskapsselskapers Skrifter. I. Mat. Naturv. Klasse 9:3-15.
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- 1877. Descriptions de dytiscides nouveaux de Manille. Ann. Soc. Entomol. France 46:355-362.
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- 1991. Family Haliplidae, crawling water beetles, pp. 60-61. In Checklist of beetles of Canada and Alaska. Y. Bousquet, ed. Agric. Canada Publ. 1861/E. Ottawa.
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- 1864. Die egyptischen Dytisciden. Ber. Entomol. Zeit. 8:105-108.
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- 1915. Beitrag zur Kenntnis und Verbreitung eruopaischer Wasserkafer. (Haliplidae, Dytiscidae). Entomol. Blatt. 11:232-250.
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- 1887. Bestimmungs-Tabellen der Dytiscidae und Gyrinidae des Europaischen Faunengebietes. Verh. Naturforschenden Verein. Brunn. 25:1-136.
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- 1854. Ofversigt af der arter inom familjen Dytisci, som blifvit antraffade pa Skandinaviska halfon. Svenska Vet. Akad. Handl. 1854:177-237.
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Wallis, J. B.
- 1933. Revision of the North American species (North of Mexico), of the genus Haliplus, Latreille. Trans. Roy. Canadian Inst. 19:1-76.
Zaitsev, F. A.
- 1972. Fauna of the USSR, Vol. IV Coleoptera. Israel Prog. Sci. Translations. Jerusalem, Israel. 401 pp.
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- 1920. Dytiscidae, Haliplidae, Hygrobiidae, Amphizoidae, 71:1-326. In Coleopterorum Catalogus. S. Schenkling, ed. W. Junk, Berlin.
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Zimsen, E.
- 1964. The type material of I. C. Fabricius. Munksgaard, Copenhagen. 654 pp.

Revised 3 May 1996
Warren U. Brigham
brigham@wub.igis.uiuc.edu