Haliplus (Haliplus) wehnckei Gerhardt 1877:36
Type specimens
Synonymy
Haliplus wehnckei Gerhardt 1877:36
- Haliplus borealis Gerhardt 1877:36, nec LeConte 1850, preoccupied
- Haliplus wehnckei Gerhardt 1877:448, replacement name
- Haliplus immaculatus auctt., nec Gerhardt 1877, mis-identification
- Haliplus lineolatus auctt., nec Mannerheim 1844, mis-identification
- Haliplus transversus auctt., nec Thomson 1870, mis-identification
Brinck (1944) proposed that Haliplus wehnckei (as H. lineolatus) and H. sibiricus (as H. sahlbergi) should be treated as subspecies of the same species. Holmen (1987) thought them likely to be conspecific, but sufficient material was not available to permit synonymy.
Distribution
Most of Europe, though rare in the south, north to Britain, Scandinavia, and northern and central parts of the USSR, east to western Siberia and Mongolia, south to the Pyrenees, Italy, and the Balkans.
Literature Cited
Brinck, P.
- 1944. Zweiter Beitrag zur Kenntnis kritischer Wasserkafer-Arten. Opusc. Entomol. 9:149-154.
Gerhardt, J.
- 1877. Zur Unterscheidung der Arten aus der Gruppe des Haliplus ruficollis de Geer. Zeitschr. Entomol. 6:34-37.
- 1877. Untitled. Deutsche Entomol. Zeitschrift 21:448.
Holmen, M.
- 1987. The aquatic Adephaga (Coleoptera) of Fennoscandia and Denmark. I. Gyrinidae, Haliplidae, Hygrobiidae and Noteridae. Fauna Entomol. Scandinavica 20:1-168.
Mannerheim, C. G.
- 1844. Description de quelques nouvelles especes de Coleopteres de Finlandie. Bull. Soc. Nat. Moscou 17:189-202.
Thomson, C. G.
- 1870. Naagra for Sverige Fauna nya Coleoptera. Opuscula Entomol. 2(9):124-140.
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 30 April 1996
Warren U. Brigham
brigham@wub.igis.uiuc.edu