Haliplus (Liaphlus) laminatus (Schaller 1783:314)

Van Vondel (1986) described the second- and third-stage larvae of this species. He assigned the species to the subgenus Haliplinus, based upon characters of the larval foreleg. He noted, however, that the adult lacked some characters of other members of this subgenus. The present checklist follows Holmen (1987) regarding the subgeneric status of this species.

Type specimens

Types presumed lost (Horn and Kahle 1936).

Synonymy

Haliplus laminatus (Schaller 1783:314)

• Dytiscus laminatus Schaller 1783:314)
  
• Haliplus cinereus Aube 1836:30
  
• Haliplus laminatus ?var. ater Redtenbacher 1842:8
  
• Haliplus laminatus var. punctulatus Penecke 1901:11
  
• Haliplus lombardus Fiori 1904:198
  
• Haliplus affinis auctt., nec Stephens 1829
  

Distribution

Central Europe from Denmark to the east coast of Spain, central Italy, and Albania, and from southeast England to the European part of the USSR (Van Vondel 1991). Iraq (Ali 1976).

Literature Cited

Ali, H. A.

• 1976. Preliminary study on the aquatic beetles of Iraq (Haliplidae, Coleoptera). Bull. Basrah Nat. Hist. Mus. 3:89-94.

• 1836. Iconographie et histoire naturelles des coleopteres d'Europe; par M. le Compte Dejean...continuee par le docteur Ch. Aube...tome 5. Hydrocanthares. Mequignon-Marvis, Paris. xi + 415 pp + 46 pls.

• 1904. Studio critico dei Dytiscidi Italiani. Riv. Coleotterologica Italiana 2:186-205.

• 1987. The aquatic Adephaga (Coleoptera) of Fennoscandia and Denmark. I. Gyrinidae, Haliplidae, Hygrobiidae and Noteridae. Fauna Entomol. Scandinavica 20:1-168.

• 1936. Ueber entomologische Sammlungen (ein Beitrag zur Geschichte der Entomolo-Museologie). Pt. 2. Entomol. Beih., Berlin 3:161-196 + 10 pls.

• 1901. Coleopterologische Miscellen. Wiener Entomol. Zeitung 20:11-21.

• 1842. Quaedam genera et species Coleopterorum Archiducatus Austriae nondum descriptorum. Vindobonae, Ueberreuter. 31 pp.

• 1783. Neue Insekten. Abh. Naturforsch. Ges. Halle 1783:217-332.

• 1986. Description of the second and third instar larvae of Haliplus laminatus with notes on the subgeneric status Coleoptera Haliplidae. Entomol. Ber. (Amst.) 46(9):128-132.

• 1991. Revision of the palearctic species of Haliplus subgenus Liaphlus Guignot (Coleoptera: Haliplidae). Tijdschr. Entomol. 134(1):75-144.

• 1972. Fauna of the USSR, Vol. IV Coleoptera. Israel Prog. Sci. Translations. Jerusalem, Israel. 401 pp.

• 1920. Dytiscidae, Haliplidae, Hygrobiidae, Amphizoidae, 71:1-326. In Coleopterorum Catalogus. S. Schenkling, ed. W. Junk, Berlin.

• 1924. Die Halipliden der Welt. Entomol. Blatt. 20:1-16, 65-80, 129-144, 193-213.