Annotated checklist of Iranian Hydrophilidae (Coleoptera: Polyphaga: Hydrophiloidea)

ABSTRACT

This checklist comprises all species of Hydrophilidae (Coleoptera: Hydrophiloidea) quoted in the literature referring to Iran and confirmed by our study. In total, 104 species within 17 genera and five subfamilies, Hydrophilinae (eight genera, 63 species), Chaetarthriinae (three genera, five species), Enochrinae (single genus, 20 species), Acidocerinae (single genus, three species) and Sphaeridiinae (four genera, 13 species), are listed for the fauna of Iran. Three species are endemic; four species are recorded here for the first time from Iran, and nine species are excluded from Iranian fauna.

KEYWORDS:

• Coleoptera
• Hydrophilidae
• checklist
• new record
• Iran

Acknowledgements

The authors express their gratitude to H. Shaverdo (Austria) for editing the manuscript and insight comments, M. Przewozny and W.B. Jêdryczkowski (Poland) for identification of some specimens (new material examined), M. Darilmaz (Turkey) and M. Jäch (Austria) for providing some papers, F. Marazzi (Italy) for help in editing and L. Hayman (England) for the English language revision.

Disclosure statement

No potential conflict of interest was reported by the authors.

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Funding

This research was supported by Islamic Azad University (Yadegar – e- Imam Khomeini (RAH) Shahre Rey, and Shiraz Branches).