Haliplus rugosus Roberts 1913:103

Type specimens

Type possibly in the American Museum of Natural History. Type locality: "California" (it is unclear whether this locality refers to the state of California, or to Baja California).

Synonymy

None.

Distribution

Roberts (1912) described this species from a single specimen labelled "California". It is unclear whether this locality refers to the state of California (United States), or to Baja California (Mexico). Leech (1948) included it in the fauna of Baja based upon a report from J. Balfour-Browne that a specimen in the British Museum (Natural History) was labelled "Lower California, N. Boundary, Godman-Salvin coll." Leech and Chandler (1956) included it in the California fauna based upon this same record. Neither Zimmermann (1924) nor Wallis (1933) saw this species.

Literature Cited

Leech, H. B.

• 1948. Contributions toward a knowledge of the insect fauna of Lower California. No. 11. Coleoptera: Haliplidae, Dytiscidae, Gyrinidae, Hydrophilidae, Limnebiidae. Proc. California Acad. Sci. 24(11):375-484 + pls. 20-21.

• 1956. Aquatic Coleoptera, pp. 293-371. In Aquatic insects of California with keys to North American genera and California species. R. L. Usinger, ed. Univ. California Press, Berkeley.

• 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.

• 1933. Revision of the North American species (North of Mexico), of the genus Haliplus, Latreille. Trans. Roy. Canadian Inst. 19:1-76.

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