Hemiops crassa SRI

Hemiops crassa (Gyllenhal, 1817) SRI Elater crassus Gyllenhal, 1817 (in Schönherr 1817): 135 (original description; published type locality: India orientali). Hemiops nigricollis Candèze, 1863: 496 (original description; published type locality: Borneo & Malaysia); Fleutiaux, 1903: 580 (synonymised with H. crassa). Hemiops crassa (Gyllenhal, 1817): Gemminger & Harold, 1869: 1603 (catalogue; “ India or.”); Candèze, 1891: 214 (catalogue; “Indes orient.”); Candèze, 1892: 495 (distributional record; India: Jharkhand); Fleutiaux, 1903: 580 (note); Schenkling, 1927: 503 (catalogue; “ Bengalen ”); Kapur, 1956: 330 (distributional record; India: Assam, Meghalaya, Manipur); Mukhopadhyay & Chakraborty, 2003: 229 (distributional record; India: Sikkim); Chakraborty & Chakrabarti, 2006: 89, 90 (distributional record; India: West Bengal); Gupta et al., 2018: 502 (catalogue; “2C” as India: Sikkim, Darjeeling District). Type Locality. Elater crassus. East India * [India orientali]; Hemiops nigricollis. Borneo* & Malaysia *. Type Depository. Elater crassus: Type, SU (??). Hemiops nigricollis: 1 Syntype, SU (NHML). Distribution in India. Assam (Cachar District), Jharkhand (Gumla District), Manipur ** (Imphal Valley), Meghalaya (East Khasi Hills District), Sikkim **, West Bengal (Alipurduar District, Darjeeling District). General Distribution. India, Indonesia (Borneo, Sumatra), Myanmar (Schenkling 1927). Remark. Based on the information provided by Candèze (1892: 481) and Hayek (1973: 273), the locality is added as Jharkhand.