Haliplus (Liaphlus) pulchellus Clark 1863:418
Type specimens
Lectotype male (designated by Van Vondel 1993:310) in the British Museum (Natural History). Type locality: Thailand, Browning.
Synonymy
Haliplus pulchellus Clark 1863:418
- Haliplus oceanicus Regimbart 1886:139
- Haliplus pulchellus var. oceanicus Regimbart 1886:139, by Zimmermann 1920:314
Van Vondel (1991:127) included Haliplus indicus Regimbart 1899:189 as a variety of Haliplus pulchellus Clark , but subsequently (Van Vondel 1993:299) considered it a distinct species.
Distribution
Coastal China north to Xaimen; India: West Bengal; Indonesia: Java, Sulawesi, and Sumatra; Sri Lanka; Thailand; and Vietnam.
Literature Cited
Clark, H.
- 1863. Descriptions of new East-Asiatic species of Haliplidae and Hydroporidae. Trans. Entomol. Soc. London 11:417-428 (also called ser. 3, vol. 1, part 5, pp. 417-428).
Regimbart, M.
- 1886. Dytiscidae et Gyrinidae nouveaux de la collection du Musee de Leyde. Notes Leyden Mus. 8:139-144.
- 1899. Revision des Dytiscidae de la region Indo-Sino-Malaise. Ann. Soc. Entomol. France 68:186-367.
Van Vondel, B. J.
- 1991. Revision of the palearctic species of Haliplus subgenus Liaphlus Guignot (Coleoptera: Haliplidae). Tijdschr. Entomol. 134(1):75-144.
- 1993. Revision of the Liaphlus species of the Oriental region excluding China (Coleoptera: Haliplidae). Tijdschr. Entomol. 136(2): 289-316.
- 1995. Haliplidae: Review of the Haliplidae of China, Chapter III. pp. 111-154. In M. A. Jach and L. Ji, eds. Waterbeetles of China. Zoologisch-Botanische Gesellschaft, Vienna.
Vazirani, T. G.
- 1966. A review of the Indian Haliplidae (Insecta: Coleoptera), with descriptions of two new species. Proc. Zool. Soc. 19:127-134.
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 28 May 1996
Warren U. Brigham
brigham@wub.igis.uiuc.edu