Haliplus (Haliplidius) obliquus (Fabricius 1787:193)
Type specimens
Synonymy
Haliplus obliquus (Fabricius 1787:193)
- Dytiscus obliquus Fabricius 1787:193
- Dytiscus amoenus Olivier 1795:32
- Halipus obliquus Gyllenhal 1808:550
- Hoplitus obliquus Clairville 1806:220
- Haliplus obliquus var. albinus Reitter 1911:92
- Haliplus obliquus var. mulleri Reitter 1912"277
- Haliplus obliquus var. obscruellus Guignot 1930:71
- Haliplus amvenus Zimmermann 1924:69, mis-spelling of amoenus
Distribution
All of palearctic region and north Africa.
Literature Cited
Clairville, J.
- 1806. Entomologie Helvetique II. Orell, Fussli & Co., Zurich. 290 pp.
Fabricius, J. C.
- 1787. Mantissa Insectorum, I. Hafniae.
Guignot, F.
- 1930. Notes sur quelques Haliplus [Col. Haliplidae]. Bull. Soc. Entomol. France 31:71-75.
- 1959. Revision des Hydrocanthares d'Afrique (Coleoptera Dytiscoidea), Part 1. Ann. Mus. Roy. Congo Belgique (ser. 8) Sci. Zool. 70:1-316.
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.
Olivier, A. G.
- 1795. Entomologie ou Histoire Naturelle des Insectes, etc. Coleopteres 3(41). Paris.
Reitter, E.
- 1911. Haliplus albinus. Wein. Entomol. Zeit. 30:92.
- 1912. Uber Haliplus albinus Reitt. (Coleoptera). Wein. Entomol. Zeit
31:277.
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.
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