Haliplus (Liaphlus) maculipennis Schaum 1864:107
Type specimens
Type in the Zoologische Sammlung des Bayerischen Staates, Munich. Type locality: Egypt, Schaum.
Synonymy
Haliplus (Liaphlus) maculipennis Schaum 1864:107
- Haliplus maculipennis var. abyssinicus Regimbart 1895:6
- Haliplus maculipennis subsp. capensis Gueorguiev 1967:11
Distribution
Egypt. The variety abyssinicus in Benin, Congo, Egypt, Ethiopia, Ivory Coast, Sudan, and Zaire; the subspecies capensis in South Africa.
Literature Cited
Gueorguiev, V. B.
- 1967. Coleoptera: Haliplidae, pp. 9-14. In. South African Animal Life:Results of the Lund Univ. Expedition in 1950-1951, vol. 13. B. Hanstrom, P. Brinck, and G. Rudebeck, eds. Swedish Nat. Sci. Res. Council, Stockholm.
Guignot, F.
- 1959. Revision des Hydrocanthares d'Afrique (Coleoptera Dytiscoidea), Part 1. Ann. Mus. Roy. Congo Belgique (ser. 8) Sci. Zool. 70:1-316.
Regimbart, M.
- 1895. Revision des Dytiscidae et Gyrinidae d'Afrique, Madagascar et iles voisines. En contribution a la faune entomologique du Congo. Mem. Soc. Entomol. Belg. 4:1-244.
Schaum, H.
- 1864. Die egyptischen Dytisciden. Ber. Entomol. Zeit. 8:105-108.
Van Vondel, B. J.
- 1991. Revision of the palearctic species of Haliplus subgenus Liaphlus Guignot (Coleoptera: Haliplidae). Tijdschr. Entomol. 134(1):75-144.
Wehncke, E.
- 1880. Neue Haliplus. Stett. Entomol. Zeit. 41:72-75.
Zaitsev, F. A.
- 1972. Fauna of the USSR, Vol. IV Coleoptera. Israel Prog. Sci. Translations. Jerusalem, Israel. 401 pp.
Zimmermann, A.
- 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.

Revised 19 March 1996
Warren U. Brigham
brigham@wub.igis.uiuc.edu