Haliplus (Haliplus) robertsi Zimmermann 1924:73
Type specimens
Holotype male in the Zimmermann collection. Type locality: United States, Oregon, Corvallis, A. R. Woodcock.
Synonymy
Haliplus robertsi Zimmermann 1924:73
- Haliplus pallidus Roberts 1913:109, pre-occupied, nec Semenov 1904, nec Sahlberg 1908
Distribution
Holarctic. Canada: Alberta and British Colombia; Russia: Kamchatka; and United States: Alaska, Arizona, California, Colorado, Idaho, New Mexico, Oregon, South Dakota, Utah, Washington, and Wyoming.
Zimmermann (1925) reported this species from a hot (35C) spring on the Kamchatka Peninsula. Zaitsev (1972) included the species in the Russian fauna based upon Zimmermann's record, but did not see the species himself.
Literature Cited
Kirk, V. M., and E. U. Balsbaugh, Jr.
- 1975. A list of the beetles of South Dakota. South Dakota Agric. Exp. Sta. Tech. Bull. 42:139 pp.
Roberts, C. H.
- 1913. Critical notes on the species of Haliplidae of America north of Mexico with descriptions of new species. J. New York Entomol. Soc. 21(2):91-123.
Roughley, R. E.
- 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.
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.
Zimmermann, A.
- 1924. Die Halipliden der Welt. Entomol. Blatt. 20:1-16, 65-80, 129-144, 193-213.
- 1925. Entomologische Ergebnisse der schwedischen Kamtchatka-Expedition 1920-1922. 9. Haliplidae und Dytiscidae. Arch. Zool. 18(6):1-3.

Revised 7 February 1996
Warren U. Brigham
brigham@wub.igis.uiuc.edu