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According to our analysis of literature sources on the family Hydraenidae (Coleoptera: Staphylinoidea) of Iran, it is represented by 67 species and three genera: Hydraena Kugelann, 1794 (21 species), Limnebius Leach, 1815 (six species) and Ochthebius Leach, 1815 (40 species). Twenty-two species are supposed to be endemic to Iran. Here, for the first time, we summarize species distribution data in Iranian provinces and present them in a checklist of Iranian Hydraenidae. We also present two additional species lists: one with incorrect records (one species and one subspecies) and the other with unidentified species. © 2018 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group.

The checklist comprises all species of six families of Iranian aquatic Polyphaga (Coleoptera). In total, 43 species/subspecies within the families, Georissidae (one species), Helophoridae (25 species and two subspecies), Hydrochidae (three species), Spercheidae (one species), Curculionidae (nine species) and Erirhinidae (two species) are listed for the fauna of Iran. Helophorus (Rhopalohelophorus) nanus Sturm, 1836 (Helophoridae) is recorded for the first time from Iran. We also present two additional species lists: one with incorrect records (one species) and the other with unidentified species. © 2018, © 2018 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group., Islamic Azad University, This research was supported by the Islamic Azad University (Yadegar-e-Imam Khomeini (RAH) Shahre Rey, and Shiraz Branches).

Haliplus (Liaphlus) mucronatus Stephens, 1828 Distribution in Iran. West Azarbaijan (Ghahari & Jedryczkowski 2011). General distribution. Albania, Algeria, Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, France, Great Britain, Germany, Greece, Iraq, Italy, Kyrgyzstan, Libya, Macedonia, Morocco, Netherlands, Portugal, Russia (North European Territory), Slovenia, Spain, Switzerland, Tunisia, Turkey, Ukraine, former Yugoslavia (Vondel 2005, 2013), Montenegro (Vondel 2013), Iran (Ghahari & Jedryczkowski 2011). Comments. Living in fresh or brackish water, particularly in clay and gravel pits with Characeans (Vondel 1997)., Published as part of Van Vondel, Bernhard J., Ostovan, Hadi & Ghahari, Hassan, 2017, An annotated checklist of Iranian Myxophaga (Hydroscaphidae, Sphaeriusidae) and Adephaga (Gyrinidae, Haliplidae, Noteridae, Rhysodidae) (Insecta: Coleoptera), pp. 225-246 in Zootaxa 4216 (3) on page 235, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.231790, {"references":["Ghahari, H. & Jedryczkowski, W. B. (2011) A faunistic survey on some families of Coleoptera (Insecta) from Iran. Calodema, 175, 1 - 4.","Vondel, B. J. van. (2005) Family Haliplidae (Coleoptera, Adephaga), pp. 20 - 86. In: Nilsson, A. N. & van Vondel, B. J. (Eds.), Amphizoidae, Aspidytidae, Haliplidae, Noteridae and Paelobiidae (Coleoptera, Adephaga). World Catalogue of Insects, 7, 1 - 171.","Vondel, B. J. van. (2013) World Catalogue of Haliplidae-corrections and additions, 2 (Coleoptera: Haliplidae). Koleopterologische Rundschau, 83, 23 - 34.","Vondel, B. J. van. (1997) Haliplidae. Susswasserfauna von Mitteleuropa, 20 (2), 1 - 95."]}

Genus Patrus Aub��, 1838 Patrus limbatus (R��gimbart, 1884) Distribution in Iran. Hormozgan (H��jek & Skale 2015). General distribution. India, Iran, Sri Lanka (H��jek & Skale 2015). Presence in Pakistan is likely (H��jek & Skale 2015). Comments. The genus Patrus was a subgenus of the predominantly Palaearctic Orectochilus Dejean, 1833, until it was revalidated by Miller & Bergsten (2012). Found in quiet areas of a small river flowing through a palm grove (H��jek & Skale 2015)., Published as part of Van Vondel, Bernhard J., Ostovan, Hadi & Ghahari, Hassan, 2017, An annotated checklist of Iranian Myxophaga (Hydroscaphidae, Sphaeriusidae) and Adephaga (Gyrinidae, Haliplidae, Noteridae, Rhysodidae) (Insecta: Coleoptera), pp. 225-246 in Zootaxa 4216 (3) on page 233, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.231790, {"references":["Hajek, J. & Skale, A. (2015) Where the Orient begins: first record of the genus Patrus Aube, 1838 (Coleoptera: Gyrinidae) in Iran. Klapalekiana, 51, 169 - 173.","Miller, K. B. & Bergsten, J. (2012) Phylogeny and classification of whirligig beetles (Coleoptera: Gyrinidae): relaxed-clock model outperforms parsimony and time-free Bayesian analyses. Systematic Entomology, 37, 706 - 746."]}

Haliplus (Liaphlus) variegatus Sturm, 1834 Distribution in Iran. Fars (Hosseinie 1974, 1978), Lorestan (Vondel: Table 1), Mazandaran (Mousavi et al 2016). General distribution. Algeria, Austria, Belgium, Bosnia Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Byelorussia, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Great Britain, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Macedonia, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Romania, Russia (Central and South European Territory), Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Syria, ���Transcaucasia���, Turkey, Ukraine, former Yugoslavia (Vondel 2005), Luxembourg, Montenegro, Serbia (Vondel 2013), Iran (Vondel 1991; Darilmaz & Kiyak 2006). Comments. Vondel (1991) suggested that the records of Hosseinie (1974, 1978) might concern other species like H. abbreviatus, but the presence in Iran is now confirmed (Vondel: Table 1). Living in stagnant waterbodies with fresh water, often with a vegetation of Characeans, Sphagnum or Hypnum, in temporary dune-pools and in peat bogs (Vondel 1997). Also found in shallow, slow-moving streams (Hosseinie 1978) and remaining pools in riverbeds (Hosseinie 1974). In rice fields (Mousavi et al. 2016)., Published as part of Van Vondel, Bernhard J., Ostovan, Hadi & Ghahari, Hassan, 2017, An annotated checklist of Iranian Myxophaga (Hydroscaphidae, Sphaeriusidae) and Adephaga (Gyrinidae, Haliplidae, Noteridae, Rhysodidae) (Insecta: Coleoptera), pp. 225-246 in Zootaxa 4216 (3) on pages 235-236, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.231790, {"references":["Hosseinie, S. O. (1974) Water beetles found in the vicinity of Shiraz, Iran (Coleoptera: Dytiscidae, Noteridae, Haliplidae, Gyrinidae, and Hydrophilidae). The Coleopterists Bulletin, 28 (4), 237 - 243.","Hosseinie, S. O. (1978) Aquatic Coleoptera from South-western Iran (Haliplidae, Dytiscidae and Gyrinidae, with a note on Hydrophilidae). The Coleopterists Bulletin, 32 (2), 167 - 176.","Mousavi, A., Marjanyan, M. A. & Kalashian, M. Yu. (2016) Contribution to the knowledge of the fauna of aquatic Adephaga (Coleoptera) of Mazadaran province of Iran (Families Haliplidae and Dytiscidae). Humanity space International almanac Vol. 5, Supplement 2, 2016, 18 - 21.","Vondel, B. J. van. (2005) Family Haliplidae (Coleoptera, Adephaga), pp. 20 - 86. In: Nilsson, A. N. & van Vondel, B. J. (Eds.), Amphizoidae, Aspidytidae, Haliplidae, Noteridae and Paelobiidae (Coleoptera, Adephaga). World Catalogue of Insects, 7, 1 - 171.","Vondel, B. J. van. (2013) World Catalogue of Haliplidae-corrections and additions, 2 (Coleoptera: Haliplidae). Koleopterologische Rundschau, 83, 23 - 34.","Vondel, B. J. van. (1991) Revision of the Palaearctic species of Haliplus subgenus Liaphlus Guignot (Coleoptera: Haliplidae). Tijdschrift Uoor Entomologie, 134, 75 - 144.","Vondel, B. J. van. (1997) Haliplidae. Susswasserfauna von Mitteleuropa, 20 (2), 1 - 95."]}

Haliplus (Liaphlus) kulleri Vondel, 1988 Distribution in Iran. Fars (Zahiri 1996; Hosseini & Zahiri 1998; Vondel: Table 1), Khuzestan (Zahiri 1996; Hosseinie & Zahiri 1998; Vondel: Table 1), North Korasan (Vondel: Table 1), Sistan & Baluchestan (Vondel: Table 1). General distribution. Cyprus, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Lebanon, Syria, Turkey (Vondel 2005). Comments. Living in temporary pools (Vondel 1991) and in marshland (Vondel: Table 1)., Published as part of Van Vondel, Bernhard J., Ostovan, Hadi & Ghahari, Hassan, 2017, An annotated checklist of Iranian Myxophaga (Hydroscaphidae, Sphaeriusidae) and Adephaga (Gyrinidae, Haliplidae, Noteridae, Rhysodidae) (Insecta: Coleoptera), pp. 225-246 in Zootaxa 4216 (3) on page 235, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.231790, {"references":["Zahiri, F. (1996) A faunal study of Haliplidae and Noteridae of the Fars and Khuzestan provinces (Coleoptera, Haliplidae and Noteridae). M. Sc thesis, University of Shiraz, Department of Biology.","Hosseinie, S. O. & Zahiri, F. (1998) Faunal study of Haliplidae and Noteridae of the Fars and Khuzestan provinces (Coleoptera, Haliplidae and Noteridae). Proceedings of 13 th Iranian Plant Protection Congress, 214 pp.","Vondel, B. J. van. (2005) Family Haliplidae (Coleoptera, Adephaga), pp. 20 - 86. In: Nilsson, A. N. & van Vondel, B. J. (Eds.), Amphizoidae, Aspidytidae, Haliplidae, Noteridae and Paelobiidae (Coleoptera, Adephaga). World Catalogue of Insects, 7, 1 - 171.","Vondel, B. J. van. (1991) Revision of the Palaearctic species of Haliplus subgenus Liaphlus Guignot (Coleoptera: Haliplidae). Tijdschrift Uoor Entomologie, 134, 75 - 144."]}

Gyrinus (Gyrinus) substriatus Stephens, 1828 Distribution in Iran. Mazandaran (Mousavi 2005), Iran (no locality cited) (Ochs 1953). General distribution. Algeria, Armenia, Austria, Azerbaijan, Belgium, Bosnia Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Byelorussia, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Great Britain, Greece, Hungary, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Italy, Liechtenstein, Macedonia, Morocco, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Russia (Central, Southern and Northern European Territory, Southern Siberia), Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Switzerland, Tunisia, Syria, Turkey, ���Transcaucasia���, Ukraine, former Yugoslavia (Mazzoldi 2003), Iran (Gu��orguiev 1981). Comments. Living on the surface of various nutricion-rich, more permanent stagnant and slowly flowing waters. Prefers fresh water, but can also be found in brackish water (Drost et al. 1992)., Published as part of Van Vondel, Bernhard J., Ostovan, Hadi & Ghahari, Hassan, 2017, An annotated checklist of Iranian Myxophaga (Hydroscaphidae, Sphaeriusidae) and Adephaga (Gyrinidae, Haliplidae, Noteridae, Rhysodidae) (Insecta: Coleoptera), pp. 225-246 in Zootaxa 4216 (3) on page 232, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.231790, {"references":["Mousavi, S. A. (2005) Species diversity of aquatic insects in Valasht Lake, Chalous, Iran. M. Sc thesis of Entomology, Islamic Azad University, Tehran Science and Research Branch, 97 pp.","Ochs, G. (1953) Ergebnisse der Osterreichischen Iran-Expedition 1949 / 50: Gyrinidae (Coleoptera). Sitzungsberichte der Kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Klasse, 162, 217 - 225.","Mazzoldi, P. (2003) Family Gyrinidae. In: Lobl, I. & Smetana, A. (Eds.), Catalogue of Palaearctic Coleoptera. Vol. 1. Archostemata - Myxophaga - Adephaga. Stenstrup, Denmark (Apollo Books), pp. 26 - 30. [819 pp.]","Gueorguiev, V. B. (1981) Resultat de L'expedition zoologique du musee national de Prague en Turquie Coleoptera: Haliplidae, Dytiscidae, Gyrinidae. Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae, 40, 399 - 424.","Drost, M. B. P., Cuppen, H. P. J. J., Nieukerken, E. J. & Schreijer, M. (1992) De waterkevers van Nederland. Uitgeverij K. N. N. V., Utrecht, 280 pp."]}

Haliplus (Haliplus) heydeni Wehncke, 1875 Distribution in Iran. Ardabil (Atamehr 2005; Vondel: Tabel 1; Atamehr & Alaei 2006, 2010). General distribution. Armenia, Austria, Belgium, Bosnia Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Byelorussia, ���Caucasus���, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Great Britain, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Kazakhstan, Macedonia, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Romania, Russia (Central, North and South European Territory, East and West Siberia), Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, ���Transcaucasia���, ���Turkestan���, Turkey, Ukraine (Vondel 2005), Iran (Vondel 2005; Vondel et al. 2006), Luxembourg (Vondel 2013). Comments. Living among filamentous algae in lakes, pools, ponds, marshes, stagnant and slow parts of rivers, brooks and streamlets. In fresh and even brackish or acid water (Vondel 1997)., Published as part of Van Vondel, Bernhard J., Ostovan, Hadi & Ghahari, Hassan, 2017, An annotated checklist of Iranian Myxophaga (Hydroscaphidae, Sphaeriusidae) and Adephaga (Gyrinidae, Haliplidae, Noteridae, Rhysodidae) (Insecta: Coleoptera), pp. 225-246 in Zootaxa 4216 (3) on page 234, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.231790, {"references":["Atamehr, A. (2005) Report of Haliplus heydeni (Col.: Haliplidae) from Iran. Journal of Entomological Society of Iran, 24 (2), 1 - 154.","Atamehr, A. & Alaei, M. (2006) Fauna of aquatic beetles (Coleoptera) collected in Ardebil region. Proceedings of 17 th Iranian Plant Protection Congress, 81 pp.","Atamehr, A. & Alaei, M. (2010) Two aquatic beetles reported (Haliplidae: Coleoptera) from Azerbaijan, Iran. World Applied Sciences Journal, 11 (8), 918 - 923.","Vondel, B. J. van. (2005) Family Haliplidae (Coleoptera, Adephaga), pp. 20 - 86. In: Nilsson, A. N. & van Vondel, B. J. (Eds.), Amphizoidae, Aspidytidae, Haliplidae, Noteridae and Paelobiidae (Coleoptera, Adephaga). World Catalogue of Insects, 7, 1 - 171.","Vondel, B. J van., Holmen, M. & Petrov, P. N. (2006) Review of the Palaearctic and Oriental species of the subgenus Haliplus s. str. (Coleoptera: Haliplidae: Haliplus) with descriptions of three new species. Tijdschrift voor Entomologie, 149, 227 - 273.","Vondel, B. J. van. (2013) World Catalogue of Haliplidae-corrections and additions, 2 (Coleoptera: Haliplidae). Koleopterologische Rundschau, 83, 23 - 34.","Vondel, B. J. van. (1997) Haliplidae. Susswasserfauna von Mitteleuropa, 20 (2), 1 - 95."]}

Hydroscapha granulum (Motschulsky, 1855) Hydroscapha sharpi Rietter, 1887. Distribution in Iran. Fars (Falamarzi et al. 2010), Guilan (Bodemeyer 1927), Khuzestan (L��bl 1994), Mazandaran (Falamarzi et al. 2010). General distribution. Azerbaijan, France, Greece, Italy, Turkey, former Yugoslavia (L��bl 2003), Bulgaria, Iran, Serbia (Falamarzi 2010). Comments. Living in springs, streams and rivers, especially on rocks covered by algae in the marginal shallows (Falamarzi et al. 2010)., Published as part of Van Vondel, Bernhard J., Ostovan, Hadi & Ghahari, Hassan, 2017, An annotated checklist of Iranian Myxophaga (Hydroscaphidae, Sphaeriusidae) and Adephaga (Gyrinidae, Haliplidae, Noteridae, Rhysodidae) (Insecta: Coleoptera), pp. 225-246 in Zootaxa 4216 (3) on page 229, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.231790, {"references":["Falamarzi, S., Putz, A., Heidari, M. & Nasserzadeh, H. (2010) Confirmed occurrence of Hydroscapha granulum in Iran, with notes on its biology (Coleoptera: Myxophaga: Hydroscaphidae). Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae, 50 (1), 97 - 106.","Bodemeyer, B. von. (1927) Ueber meine entomologischen Reisen nach Kleinasien (1911), Ost-Sibirien, Schilka und Amur (1912), Tunis, Oasis Gafsa, Khroumerie (1913) und Iran, Elbursgebirge (1914). Vol. 1. Kleinasien. Stuttgart: A. Kernen, 85 pp.","Lobl, I. (1994) Les especes Asiatiques du genre Hydroschapha LeConte (Coleoptera, Hydroscaphidae). Archives des Sciences (Geneve), 47, 15 - 34."]}

Canthydrus notula (Erichson, 1843) Distribution in Iran. Fars (Hosseinie 1974). General distribution. Angola, Botswana, Cameroon, Chad, Congo, Ethiopia, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Ivory Coast, Kenya, Madagascar, Malawi, Mali, Mozambique, Namibia, Nigeria, Oman, Ruanda, Senegal, Seychelles (Aldabra Islands), Sierra Leone, Somalia, South Africa, Swaziland, Tanzania, Uganda, Yemen, Zaire, Zambia, Zimbabwe (Nilsson 2011). Comments. Found in remaining pools in riverbed and in marshes (Hosseinie 1974)., Published as part of Van Vondel, Bernhard J., Ostovan, Hadi & Ghahari, Hassan, 2017, An annotated checklist of Iranian Myxophaga (Hydroscaphidae, Sphaeriusidae) and Adephaga (Gyrinidae, Haliplidae, Noteridae, Rhysodidae) (Insecta: Coleoptera), pp. 225-246 in Zootaxa 4216 (3) on page 238, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.231790, {"references":["Hosseinie, S. O. (1974) Water beetles found in the vicinity of Shiraz, Iran (Coleoptera: Dytiscidae, Noteridae, Haliplidae, Gyrinidae, and Hydrophilidae). The Coleopterists Bulletin, 28 (4), 237 - 243.","Nilsson, A. N. (2011) A World Catalogue of the Family Noteridae, or the Burrowing Water Beetles (Coleoptera, Adephaga) Version 16. VIII. 2011. Avaliable from: http: // www 2. emg. umu. se / projects / biginst / andersn / WCN / wcn _ index. htm (Accessed 4 Jan. 2017)"]}

Brychius elevatus (Panzer, 1793) Brychius cristatus J.R. Sahlberg, 1875. Distribution in Iran. Guilan (Bodemeyer 1927). General distribution. Albania, Luxembourg, Russia (Southern European Territory), Switzerland (Vondel 2013), Austria, Belgium, Bosnia Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Byelorussia, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Great Britain, Iraq, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Romania, Russia (Central and Northern European Territory, East and West Siberia), Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Ukraina, former Yugoslavia (Vondel 2005), Iran (Bodemeyer 1927), Kyrgyzstan (Vondel 2007). Comments. Living in oxygen-rich brooks, streams and rivers (Vondel 1997). Bodemeyer (1927) reports this species from an algae-rich pond in the Elbruz Mountains., Published as part of Van Vondel, Bernhard J., Ostovan, Hadi & Ghahari, Hassan, 2017, An annotated checklist of Iranian Myxophaga (Hydroscaphidae, Sphaeriusidae) and Adephaga (Gyrinidae, Haliplidae, Noteridae, Rhysodidae) (Insecta: Coleoptera), pp. 225-246 in Zootaxa 4216 (3) on page 233, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.231790, {"references":["Bodemeyer, B. von. (1927) Ueber meine entomologischen Reisen nach Kleinasien (1911), Ost-Sibirien, Schilka und Amur (1912), Tunis, Oasis Gafsa, Khroumerie (1913) und Iran, Elbursgebirge (1914). Vol. 1. Kleinasien. Stuttgart: A. Kernen, 85 pp.","Vondel, B. J. van. (2013) World Catalogue of Haliplidae-corrections and additions, 2 (Coleoptera: Haliplidae). Koleopterologische Rundschau, 83, 23 - 34.","Vondel, B. J. van. (2005) Family Haliplidae (Coleoptera, Adephaga), pp. 20 - 86. In: Nilsson, A. N. & van Vondel, B. J. (Eds.), Amphizoidae, Aspidytidae, Haliplidae, Noteridae and Paelobiidae (Coleoptera, Adephaga). World Catalogue of Insects, 7, 1 - 171.","Vondel, B. J. van. (2007) World Catalogue of Haliplidae-corrections and additions, 1 (Coleoptera: Haliplidae). Koleopterologische Rundschau, 77, 89 - 96.","Vondel, B. J. van. (1997) Haliplidae. Susswasserfauna von Mitteleuropa, 20 (2), 1 - 95."]}

Noterus clavicornis (De Geer, 1774) Distribution in Iran. Alborz (Hematyian et al. 2010), East Azarbaijan, Fars (Hosseinie 1974, 1978; Zahiri 1996; Hosseinie & Zahiri 1998; Toledo 2004), Guilan (Bodemeyer 1927; Gu��orguiev 1965c; Cox & Cox 1982; Toledo 2004; Kamali 2008), Khuzestan (Zahiri 1996; Hosseinie & Zahiri 1998; Ghodrati et al. 2014), Khuzestan (Hosseinie & Zahiri 1998), Markazi (Vafaei et al. 2004; Vafaei 2005), Mazandaran, Qazvin (Darilmaz et al. 2013), Sistan & Baluchestan (Legros 1972). General distribution. Albania, Armenia, Austria, Azerbaijan, Belgium, Bosnia Hercegovina, Bulgaria, Byelorussia, China (Heilongjiang, Shaanxi, Xinjiang), Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Georgia, Great Britain, Greece, Hungary, Iraq, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Jordan, Kashmir, Kazakhstan, Latvia, Lebanon, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Macedonia, Moldavia, Mongolia, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Russia (Central European Territory, East Siberia, South European Territory, West Siberia), Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Syria, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan, former Yugoslavia (Nilsson 2011), Iran (Nilsson 2003, 2011; Darilmaz & Kiyak 2006; Toledo 2004). Comments. Living in eutrophic pools, ditches, marshes, rivers (Drost et al. 1992). Bodemeyer (1927) reports this species from a pool in the Elbruz Mountains., Published as part of Van Vondel, Bernhard J., Ostovan, Hadi & Ghahari, Hassan, 2017, An annotated checklist of Iranian Myxophaga (Hydroscaphidae, Sphaeriusidae) and Adephaga (Gyrinidae, Haliplidae, Noteridae, Rhysodidae) (Insecta: Coleoptera), pp. 225-246 in Zootaxa 4216 (3) on page 238, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.231790, {"references":["Hematyian, R., Vafaei Shushtari, R. & Ebrahimi, E. (2010) Fauna and distribution of aquatic Coleoptera in parts of central Alborz. Proceedings of 19 th Iranian Plant Protection Congress, 137 pp.","Hosseinie, S. O. (1974) Water beetles found in the vicinity of Shiraz, Iran (Coleoptera: Dytiscidae, Noteridae, Haliplidae, Gyrinidae, and Hydrophilidae). The Coleopterists Bulletin, 28 (4), 237 - 243.","Hosseinie, S. O. (1978) Aquatic Coleoptera from South-western Iran (Haliplidae, Dytiscidae and Gyrinidae, with a note on Hydrophilidae). The Coleopterists Bulletin, 32 (2), 167 - 176.","Zahiri, F. (1996) A faunal study of Haliplidae and Noteridae of the Fars and Khuzestan provinces (Coleoptera, Haliplidae and Noteridae). M. Sc thesis, University of Shiraz, Department of Biology.","Hosseinie, S. O. & Zahiri, F. (1998) Faunal study of Haliplidae and Noteridae of the Fars and Khuzestan provinces (Coleoptera, Haliplidae and Noteridae). Proceedings of 13 th Iranian Plant Protection Congress, 214 pp.","Toledo, M. (2004) Diagnosis of Noterus ponticus Sharp, 1882 (Coleoptera: Noteridae). Koleopterologische Rundschau, 74, 33 - 43.","Bodemeyer, B. von. (1927) Ueber meine entomologischen Reisen nach Kleinasien (1911), Ost-Sibirien, Schilka und Amur (1912), Tunis, Oasis Gafsa, Khroumerie (1913) und Iran, Elbursgebirge (1914). Vol. 1. Kleinasien. Stuttgart: A. Kernen, 85 pp.","Gueorguiev, V. B. (1965 c) Sur la faune des coleopteres hydrocanthares d'Iran. Bulletin de l'Institut de Zoologie et Musee, Academie Bulgare des Sciences, 19, 101 - 117.","Cox, M. L. & Cox, P. (1982) The water beetles of Amir Kelaieh and Pahlaer marshes in Northern Iran (Coleoptera; Dytiscidae, Haliplidae, Gyrinidae and Hydrophilidae). Entomology News, 118, 145 - 156.","Kamali, E. (2008) Identification of aquatic beetles (Insecta: Coleoptera) and family biotic index in Astara Rivers, Gilan province, Iran. Ph. D thesis, Islamic Azad University, Science and Research Branch, 154 pp.","Ghodrati, A., Esfandiari, M. & Khadempour, A. (2014) Aquatic insects as an index for Safety of rivers, with introducing some species of aquatic Coleoptera in Karun River. 1 st National Conference of Agriculture Contaminations and Food Safety, University of Mollasani, Khuzestan, 26 - 27 February, 2014, pp. 1 - 4. [in Persian]","Vafaei, R., Ostovan, H., Kamali. K. & Goldasteh, S. (2004) Faunal study of aquatic Coleoptera in Markazi province. Proceedings of the 1 st Symposium of Ecologists of the Republic of Montenegro, Tivat, pp. 65 - 66.","Vafaei, R. (2005) Biodiversity of aquatic Coleoptera and aquatic Hemiptera from Markazi province and the biology of Notonecta viridis Delcourt. Ph. D dissertation, Islamic Azad University, Science and Research Branch, 255 pp.","Darilmaz, M. C., Incekara, U. & Vafaei, R. (2013) Contributions to the knowledge of Iranian aquatic Adephaga (Coleoptera). Spixiana, 36 (1), 149 - 152.","Legros, C. (1972) Contribution a la faune de l'Iran. 23. Coleopteres Hydrocanthares. Annales de la Societe Entomologique de France (N. S.), 8 (3), 573 - 578.","Nilsson, A. N. (2011) A World Catalogue of the Family Noteridae, or the Burrowing Water Beetles (Coleoptera, Adephaga) Version 16. VIII. 2011. Avaliable from: http: // www 2. emg. umu. se / projects / biginst / andersn / WCN / wcn _ index. htm (Accessed 4 Jan. 2017)","Nilsson, A. N. (2003) Family Noteridae, 33 - 35. In: Lobl, I. & Smetana, A. (Eds.), Catalogue of Palaearctic Coleoptera. Vol. 1. Archostemata - Myxophaga - Adephaga. Stenstrup, Denmark (Apollo Books), pp. 819 - 819.","Drost, M. B. P., Cuppen, H. P. J. J., Nieukerken, E. J. & Schreijer, M. (1992) De waterkevers van Nederland. Uitgeverij K. N. N. V., Utrecht, 280 pp."]}

Dineutus (Protodineutus) indicus Aub�� 1838 Distribution in Iran. Kerman (Gu��orguiev 1965c), Sistan & Baluchestan (Ochs 1953, 1957; Legros 1972), Iran (no locality cited) (Mazzoldi 2003). General distribution. India, Nepal, Pakistan, Iran (Mazzoldi 2003), India, Sri Lanka (Ochs 1953). Comments. This Oriental species reaches its most Western distribution in Iran, Kerman. Up to an altitude of 1500 m (Ochs 1953)., Published as part of Van Vondel, Bernhard J., Ostovan, Hadi & Ghahari, Hassan, 2017, An annotated checklist of Iranian Myxophaga (Hydroscaphidae, Sphaeriusidae) and Adephaga (Gyrinidae, Haliplidae, Noteridae, Rhysodidae) (Insecta: Coleoptera), pp. 225-246 in Zootaxa 4216 (3) on page 230, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.231790, {"references":["Gueorguiev, V. B. (1965 c) Sur la faune des coleopteres hydrocanthares d'Iran. Bulletin de l'Institut de Zoologie et Musee, Academie Bulgare des Sciences, 19, 101 - 117.","Ochs, G. (1953) Ergebnisse der Osterreichischen Iran-Expedition 1949 / 50: Gyrinidae (Coleoptera). Sitzungsberichte der Kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Klasse, 162, 217 - 225.","Ochs, G. (1957) Zur Gyriniden-Fauna des Iran 1954 und 1956 (Coleopt.) Jh. Ver. vaterl. naturk. Wurttemberg, 112, 1 - 130.","Legros, C. (1972) Contribution a la faune de l'Iran. 23. Coleopteres Hydrocanthares. Annales de la Societe Entomologique de France (N. S.), 8 (3), 573 - 578.","Mazzoldi, P. (2003) Family Gyrinidae. In: Lobl, I. & Smetana, A. (Eds.), Catalogue of Palaearctic Coleoptera. Vol. 1. Archostemata - Myxophaga - Adephaga. Stenstrup, Denmark (Apollo Books), pp. 26 - 30. [819 pp.]"]}

Sphaerius sp. [acaroides Waltl, 1838] Distribution in Iran. Fars (Falamarzi et al. 2010). Comments. Most likely this concerns S. acaroides Waltl, 1838, a species widely distributed in Europe, but confirmation is needed., Published as part of Van Vondel, Bernhard J., Ostovan, Hadi & Ghahari, Hassan, 2017, An annotated checklist of Iranian Myxophaga (Hydroscaphidae, Sphaeriusidae) and Adephaga (Gyrinidae, Haliplidae, Noteridae, Rhysodidae) (Insecta: Coleoptera), pp. 225-246 in Zootaxa 4216 (3) on page 229, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.231790, {"references":["Falamarzi, S., Putz, A., Heidari, M. & Nasserzadeh, H. (2010) Confirmed occurrence of Hydroscapha granulum in Iran, with notes on its biology (Coleoptera: Myxophaga: Hydroscaphidae). Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae, 50 (1), 97 - 106."]}

Haliplus spp. Distribution in Iran. Guilan (Hosseinie 1995a), Isfahan (Shayeghi et al. 2014), Khuzestan (Hosseinie 1994), Mazandaran (Hosseinie 1995b; Mousavi 2005)., Published as part of Van Vondel, Bernhard J., Ostovan, Hadi & Ghahari, Hassan, 2017, An annotated checklist of Iranian Myxophaga (Hydroscaphidae, Sphaeriusidae) and Adephaga (Gyrinidae, Haliplidae, Noteridae, Rhysodidae) (Insecta: Coleoptera), pp. 225-246 in Zootaxa 4216 (3) on page 236, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.231790, {"references":["Hosseinie, S. O. (1995 a) Report on the aquatic Coleoptera of Gilan, a province in the north of Iran. Latissimus (Newsletter of the Balfour-Browne Club), 6, 1 - 11.","Shayeghi, M., Vatandoost, H., Gorouhi, A., Sanei-Dehkordi, A. R., Salim-Abadi, Y., Karami, M., Jalil-Navaz, M. R., Akhavan, A. A., Shiekh, Z., Vatandoost, S. & Arandian, M. H. (2014) Biodiversity of aquatic insects of Zayandeh Roud River and its branches, Isfahan province, Iran. Journal of Arthropod-Borne Dis, 8 (2), 197 - 203.","Hosseinie, S. O. (1994) A survey of the water beetles of Khuzestan, Iran. Latissimus (Newsletter of the Balfour-Browne Club), 4, 1 - 23.","Hosseinie, S. O. (1995 b) Water beetles in the Mazandaran province, north of Iran. Latissimus (Newsletter of the Balfour- Browne Club), 5, 1 - 20.","Mousavi, S. A. (2005) Species diversity of aquatic insects in Valasht Lake, Chalous, Iran. M. Sc thesis of Entomology, Islamic Azad University, Tehran Science and Research Branch, 97 pp."]}

Haliplus (Haliplidius) obliquus Fabricius, 1787 Distribution in Iran. Hamadan (Vondel: Table 1). General distribution. Albania, Serbia (Vondel 2013), Austria, Belgium, Bosnia Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Byelorussia, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Great Britain, Greece, Hungary, Iran, Iraq, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Morocco, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Russia (Central and South European Territory, Siberia), Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, ���Transcaucasia���, Turkey, Ukraine, former Yugoslavia (Vondel 2005), Iran (Gu��orguiev 1981). Comments. Living among Characeans in stagnant fresh water in ditches, lakes and gravel-pits. Also recorded from brackish water. Up to an altitude of 2300 m (Vondel 1997)., Published as part of Van Vondel, Bernhard J., Ostovan, Hadi & Ghahari, Hassan, 2017, An annotated checklist of Iranian Myxophaga (Hydroscaphidae, Sphaeriusidae) and Adephaga (Gyrinidae, Haliplidae, Noteridae, Rhysodidae) (Insecta: Coleoptera), pp. 225-246 in Zootaxa 4216 (3) on pages 233-234, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.231790, {"references":["Vondel, B. J. van. (2013) World Catalogue of Haliplidae-corrections and additions, 2 (Coleoptera: Haliplidae). Koleopterologische Rundschau, 83, 23 - 34.","Vondel, B. J. van. (2005) Family Haliplidae (Coleoptera, Adephaga), pp. 20 - 86. In: Nilsson, A. N. & van Vondel, B. J. (Eds.), Amphizoidae, Aspidytidae, Haliplidae, Noteridae and Paelobiidae (Coleoptera, Adephaga). World Catalogue of Insects, 7, 1 - 171.","Gueorguiev, V. B. (1981) Resultat de L'expedition zoologique du musee national de Prague en Turquie Coleoptera: Haliplidae, Dytiscidae, Gyrinidae. Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae, 40, 399 - 424.","Vondel, B. J. van. (1997) Haliplidae. Susswasserfauna von Mitteleuropa, 20 (2), 1 - 95."]}

Peltodytes rotundatus (Aub��, 1836) Distribution in Iran. West Azarbaijan (Ghahari & Jedryczkowski 2011). General distribution. Albania, Algeria, Bosnia Herzegovina, Croatia, France, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Luxembourg, Morocco, Portugal, Slovenia, Spain, Tunisia, Turkey, former Yugoslavia (Vondel 2005), Switzerland, Montenegro (Vondel 2013), Iran (Ghahari & Jedryczkowski 2011). Comments. Living among filamentous algae in lakes, pools, ponds, rivers, marshes, brooks, streamlets. Prefers running water. Among vegetation of Utricularia and Nuphar (Vondel 1997). Also found in hot springs (Incekara 2007)., Published as part of Van Vondel, Bernhard J., Ostovan, Hadi & Ghahari, Hassan, 2017, An annotated checklist of Iranian Myxophaga (Hydroscaphidae, Sphaeriusidae) and Adephaga (Gyrinidae, Haliplidae, Noteridae, Rhysodidae) (Insecta: Coleoptera), pp. 225-246 in Zootaxa 4216 (3) on page 237, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.231790, {"references":["Ghahari, H. & Jedryczkowski, W. B. (2011) A faunistic survey on some families of Coleoptera (Insecta) from Iran. Calodema, 175, 1 - 4.","Vondel, B. J. van. (2005) Family Haliplidae (Coleoptera, Adephaga), pp. 20 - 86. In: Nilsson, A. N. & van Vondel, B. J. (Eds.), Amphizoidae, Aspidytidae, Haliplidae, Noteridae and Paelobiidae (Coleoptera, Adephaga). World Catalogue of Insects, 7, 1 - 171.","Vondel, B. J. van. (2013) World Catalogue of Haliplidae-corrections and additions, 2 (Coleoptera: Haliplidae). Koleopterologische Rundschau, 83, 23 - 34.","Vondel, B. J. van. (1997) Haliplidae. Susswasserfauna von Mitteleuropa, 20 (2), 1 - 95.","Incekara, U. (2007) Contribution to the knowledge of Hydrophilidae and Haliplidae (Coleoptera) fauna of Algeria. Turkiye Entomoloji Dergisi, 31 (4), 291 - 295."]}

Gyrinus distinctus ab. [?] fairmairei R��gimbart, 1883 Distribution in Iran. Fars (Ochs 1953, Arefnia 2004), Ilam, Khuzestan, Semnan (Peschet 1914; Ochs 1953, 1957), Isfahan (Peschet 1914), Iran (no locality cited) (Gu��orguiev 1965a). General distribution. Iran, except the Northern provinces, Syria, Iraq (Ochs 1953). Comments. Probably just an aberration of G. distinctus (see discussion there). Up to an altitude of 2000 m (Ochs 1953)., Published as part of Van Vondel, Bernhard J., Ostovan, Hadi & Ghahari, Hassan, 2017, An annotated checklist of Iranian Myxophaga (Hydroscaphidae, Sphaeriusidae) and Adephaga (Gyrinidae, Haliplidae, Noteridae, Rhysodidae) (Insecta: Coleoptera), pp. 225-246 in Zootaxa 4216 (3) on page 231, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.231790, {"references":["Ochs, G. (1953) Ergebnisse der Osterreichischen Iran-Expedition 1949 / 50: Gyrinidae (Coleoptera). Sitzungsberichte der Kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Klasse, 162, 217 - 225.","Arefnia, A. (2004) Species diversity of aquatic insects in Ghare-Agag River in Jahrom region. M. Sc thesis of Entomology, Islamic Azad University, Science and Research Branch, 129 pp.","Peschet, R. (1914) Dytiscidae et Gyrinidae recueillis par la delegation scientifique en Perse. (Mission J. de Morgan, 1904) (Coleopt.). Annales de la Societe Entomologique de France, 83, 225 - 232.","Ochs, G. (1957) Zur Gyriniden-Fauna des Iran 1954 und 1956 (Coleopt.) Jh. Ver. vaterl. naturk. Wurttemberg, 112, 1 - 130.","Gueorguiev, V. B. (1965 a) Notes sur les coleopteres hydrocanthares d'Iran (Dytiscidae et Gyrinidae). Reichenbachia, 4 (28), 255 - 259."]}

Peltodytes spp. Distribution in Iran. Guilan (Hosseinie 1995a), Isfahan (Shayeghi et al. 2014), Mazandaran (Hosseinie 1995b).

Gyrinus (Gyrinus) caspius M��netries, 1832 Gyrinus elongatus Aub��, 1838. Distribution in Iran. East Azarbaijan (Atamehr 2002; Atamehr et al. 2004), Golestan (Ochs 1953), Guilan (Bodemeyer 1927; Gu��orguiev 1965c; Kamali 2008), Mazandaran (Ochs 1953; Legros 1972). General distribution. Algeria, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belgium, Bosnia Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Byelorussia, China (Xinjiang), Croatia, Cyprus, Denmark, Estonia, France, Germany, Georgia, Greece, Iraq, Israel, Italy, Kazakhstan, Lebanon, Lithuania, Morocco, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Russia (Central and South European Territory), Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Ukraine, Syria, Turkmenistan, Turkey, former Yugoslavia (Mazzoldi 2003), Iran (Gu��orguiev 1981; Mazzoldi 2003; Shaverdo 2003; Darilmaz & Kiyak 2006; Kiyak et al. 2006). Comments. Puddles and slowly flowing streams; fresh and brackish water (Kiyak et al. 2006). Bodemeyer (1927) reports this species from a brooklet in the Elbruz Mountains., Published as part of Van Vondel, Bernhard J., Ostovan, Hadi & Ghahari, Hassan, 2017, An annotated checklist of Iranian Myxophaga (Hydroscaphidae, Sphaeriusidae) and Adephaga (Gyrinidae, Haliplidae, Noteridae, Rhysodidae) (Insecta: Coleoptera), pp. 225-246 in Zootaxa 4216 (3) on page 230, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.231790, {"references":["Atamehr, A. (2002) A faunistical study of aquatic Coleoptera in Tabriz region, Iran and bioecological study on richness species. Ph. D. thesis, Islamic Azad University, 194 pp.","Atamehr, A., Kamali, K. & Ostovan, H. (2004) Fauna of aquatic beetles in Tabriz region. Proceedings of 16 th Iranian Plant Protection Congress, 123 pp.","Ochs, G. (1953) Ergebnisse der Osterreichischen Iran-Expedition 1949 / 50: Gyrinidae (Coleoptera). Sitzungsberichte der Kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Klasse, 162, 217 - 225.","Bodemeyer, B. von. (1927) Ueber meine entomologischen Reisen nach Kleinasien (1911), Ost-Sibirien, Schilka und Amur (1912), Tunis, Oasis Gafsa, Khroumerie (1913) und Iran, Elbursgebirge (1914). Vol. 1. Kleinasien. Stuttgart: A. Kernen, 85 pp.","Gueorguiev, V. B. (1965 c) Sur la faune des coleopteres hydrocanthares d'Iran. Bulletin de l'Institut de Zoologie et Musee, Academie Bulgare des Sciences, 19, 101 - 117.","Kamali, E. (2008) Identification of aquatic beetles (Insecta: Coleoptera) and family biotic index in Astara Rivers, Gilan province, Iran. Ph. D thesis, Islamic Azad University, Science and Research Branch, 154 pp.","Legros, C. (1972) Contribution a la faune de l'Iran. 23. Coleopteres Hydrocanthares. Annales de la Societe Entomologique de France (N. S.), 8 (3), 573 - 578.","Mazzoldi, P. (2003) Family Gyrinidae. In: Lobl, I. & Smetana, A. (Eds.), Catalogue of Palaearctic Coleoptera. Vol. 1. Archostemata - Myxophaga - Adephaga. Stenstrup, Denmark (Apollo Books), pp. 26 - 30. [819 pp.]","Gueorguiev, V. B. (1981) Resultat de L'expedition zoologique du musee national de Prague en Turquie Coleoptera: Haliplidae, Dytiscidae, Gyrinidae. Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae, 40, 399 - 424.","Shaverdo, H. V. (2003) Adephagous water beetles of Armenia (Coleoptera: Dytiscidae, Gyrinidae, Haliplidae, Noteridae). Koleopterologische Rundschau, 73, 31 - 42."]}

Haliplus (Haliplus) ruficollis (De Geer, 1774) Distribution in Iran. Guilan (Gu��orguiev 1965c; Cox & Cox 1982; Vondel: Table 1), Mazandaran (Mousavi et al. 2016; Vondel: Table 1), West Azarbaijan (Samin et al. 2015). General distribution. Afghanistan, Armenia, Austria, Belgium, Bosnia Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Byelorussia, ���Caucasus���, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Great Britain, Greece, Hungary, Iraq, Ireland, Italy, Kazakhstan, Latvia, Luxembourg, Macedonia, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia (North and South European Territory, East and West Siberia), Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Tadzhikistan, ���Transcaucasia���, ���Turkestan���, Turkey, Ukraine, Uzbekistan, former Yugoslavia (Vondel 2005), China (Xinjiang) (Jia & Vondel 2011), Iran (Vondel 2003, 2005; Vondel et al. 2006), Serbia (Vondel 2013). Comments. Living among filamentous algae in lakes, pools, ponds, rivers, marshes, brooks and streamlets. Preferably in stagnant water. Attracted to light (Vondel 1997)., Published as part of Van Vondel, Bernhard J., Ostovan, Hadi & Ghahari, Hassan, 2017, An annotated checklist of Iranian Myxophaga (Hydroscaphidae, Sphaeriusidae) and Adephaga (Gyrinidae, Haliplidae, Noteridae, Rhysodidae) (Insecta: Coleoptera), pp. 225-246 in Zootaxa 4216 (3) on page 234, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.231790, {"references":["Gueorguiev, V. B. (1965 c) Sur la faune des coleopteres hydrocanthares d'Iran. Bulletin de l'Institut de Zoologie et Musee, Academie Bulgare des Sciences, 19, 101 - 117.","Cox, M. L. & Cox, P. (1982) The water beetles of Amir Kelaieh and Pahlaer marshes in Northern Iran (Coleoptera; Dytiscidae, Haliplidae, Gyrinidae and Hydrophilidae). Entomology News, 118, 145 - 156.","Mousavi, A., Marjanyan, M. A. & Kalashian, M. Yu. (2016) Contribution to the knowledge of the fauna of aquatic Adephaga (Coleoptera) of Mazadaran province of Iran (Families Haliplidae and Dytiscidae). Humanity space International almanac Vol. 5, Supplement 2, 2016, 18 - 21.","Samin, N., Jedryczkowski, W. B. & Sakenin Chelav, H. (2015) A faunistic study on the Coleoptera (Insecta) from some aquatic and semi-aquatic ecosystems in northwestern Iran. Far Eastern Entomologist, 302, 18 - 24.","Vondel, B. J. van. (2005) Family Haliplidae (Coleoptera, Adephaga), pp. 20 - 86. In: Nilsson, A. N. & van Vondel, B. J. (Eds.), Amphizoidae, Aspidytidae, Haliplidae, Noteridae and Paelobiidae (Coleoptera, Adephaga). World Catalogue of Insects, 7, 1 - 171.","Jia, F. & Vondel, B. J. van. (2011) Annotated catalogue of the Haliplidae of China with the description of a new species and new records from China (Coleoptera, Adephaga). ZooKeys, 133, 1 - 17.","Vondel, B. J. van. (2003) Family Haliplidae, pp. 3 0 - 33. In: Lobl, I. & Smetana, A. (Eds.), Catalogue of Palaearctic Coleoptera. Vol. 1. Archostemata - Myxophaga - Adephaga. Stenstrup, Denmark (Apollo Books), 819 pp.","Vondel, B. J van., Holmen, M. & Petrov, P. N. (2006) Review of the Palaearctic and Oriental species of the subgenus Haliplus s. str. (Coleoptera: Haliplidae: Haliplus) with descriptions of three new species. Tijdschrift voor Entomologie, 149, 227 - 273.","Vondel, B. J. van. (2013) World Catalogue of Haliplidae-corrections and additions, 2 (Coleoptera: Haliplidae). Koleopterologische Rundschau, 83, 23 - 34.","Vondel, B. J. van. (1997) Haliplidae. Susswasserfauna von Mitteleuropa, 20 (2), 1 - 95."]}

Haliplus (Haliplus) fluviatilis (Aub��, 1836) Distribution in Iran. West Azarbaijan (Ahmadi et al. 2012). General distribution. Afghanistan, Austria, Belgium, Bosnia Hergegovina, Bulgaria, Byelorussia, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Great Britain, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Luxembourg, Macedonia, Netherlands, Poland, Romania, Russia (Central, North and South European Territory, East and West Siberia), Slovakia, Spain, Sweden, ���Transcaucasia���, Turkey, Ukraine, former Yugoslavia (Vondel 2005), Serbia, Switzerland (Vondel 2013), Iran. Comments. The identity of the specimen recorded by Ahmadi et al. (2012) should be confirmed as H. fluviatilis is easily confused with species like H. heydeni or H. ruficollis. H. fluviatilis lives among vegetation in streams, rivers, but also in lakes with sandy or stony bottom. Attracted to light (Vondel 1997)., Published as part of Van Vondel, Bernhard J., Ostovan, Hadi & Ghahari, Hassan, 2017, An annotated checklist of Iranian Myxophaga (Hydroscaphidae, Sphaeriusidae) and Adephaga (Gyrinidae, Haliplidae, Noteridae, Rhysodidae) (Insecta: Coleoptera), pp. 225-246 in Zootaxa 4216 (3) on page 234, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.231790, {"references":["Ahmadi, R., Aliyev, A., Seidgar, M., Bayramov, A. & Ganji, S. (2012) Macroinvertebrate communities differences on Riverine Parts and Reservoirs of Zarrineh River. American Journal of Agricultural and Biological Sciences, 7 (1), 71 - 75. https: // doi. org / 10.3844 / ajabssp. 2012.71.75","Vondel, B. J. van. (2005) Family Haliplidae (Coleoptera, Adephaga), pp. 20 - 86. In: Nilsson, A. N. & van Vondel, B. J. (Eds.), Amphizoidae, Aspidytidae, Haliplidae, Noteridae and Paelobiidae (Coleoptera, Adephaga). World Catalogue of Insects, 7, 1 - 171.","Vondel, B. J. van. (2013) World Catalogue of Haliplidae-corrections and additions, 2 (Coleoptera: Haliplidae). Koleopterologische Rundschau, 83, 23 - 34.","Vondel, B. J. van. (1997) Haliplidae. Susswasserfauna von Mitteleuropa, 20 (2), 1 - 95."]}

Omoglymmius (Omoglymmius) germari Ganglbauer, 1891 Distribution in Iran. Northern Khorasan (Brustel & Gouix 2011), Iran (no locality cited) (Bell 2003; Nakl��dal 2008). General distribution. Armenia, Austria, Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, France, Georgia, Greece, Hungary, Iran, Italy, Moldavia, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Russia (South European Territory), Turkey, Ukraine (Bell 2003). Comments. Found on notched surface of oak log stored on roadside stack (Nakladal 2008)., Published as part of Van Vondel, Bernhard J., Ostovan, Hadi & Ghahari, Hassan, 2017, An annotated checklist of Iranian Myxophaga (Hydroscaphidae, Sphaeriusidae) and Adephaga (Gyrinidae, Haliplidae, Noteridae, Rhysodidae) (Insecta: Coleoptera), pp. 225-246 in Zootaxa 4216 (3) on page 239, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.231790, {"references":["Brustel, H. & Gouix, N. (2011) Coleopteres Rhysodidae en France: donnees complementaires pour Rhysodes sulcatus (F., 1787) et incitation a la recherche d'Omoglymmius (s. s.) germari (Ganglbauer, 1892). L'Entomologiste, tome 67, n ° 6, 321 - 325.","Bell, R. T. (2003) Family Rhysodidae, 78 - 79. In: Lobl, I. & Smetana, A. (Eds.), Catalogue of Palaearctic Coleoptera. Vol. 1. Archostemata - Myxophaga - Adephaga. Stenstrup, Denmark (Apollo Books), pp. 819 - 819.","Nakladal, O. (2008) Faunistic records from the Czech Republic - 263. Coleoptera: Rhysodidae. Klapalekiana, 44, 1 - 293."]}

Gyrinus (Gyrinus) dejeani Brull��, 1832 Material examined. Ardabil province (Table 1). New record for Iran. General distribution. Algeria, Bosnia Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Canary Islands, Croatia, Cyprus, Egypt, France, Greece, Iraq, Israel, Italy, Lebanon, Macedonia, Morocco, Portugal, Romania, Slovenia, Spain, Syria, Tunisia, Turkey, former Yugoslavia (Mazzoldi 2003). Comments. Unknown species of Gyrinus by Atamehr & Alaei (2006) was identified as G. dejeani. Along coast of dam lakes and slowly flowing streams, fresh water (Kiyak et al. 2006)., Published as part of Van Vondel, Bernhard J., Ostovan, Hadi & Ghahari, Hassan, 2017, An annotated checklist of Iranian Myxophaga (Hydroscaphidae, Sphaeriusidae) and Adephaga (Gyrinidae, Haliplidae, Noteridae, Rhysodidae) (Insecta: Coleoptera), pp. 225-246 in Zootaxa 4216 (3) on page 231, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.231790, {"references":["Mazzoldi, P. (2003) Family Gyrinidae. In: Lobl, I. & Smetana, A. (Eds.), Catalogue of Palaearctic Coleoptera. Vol. 1. Archostemata - Myxophaga - Adephaga. Stenstrup, Denmark (Apollo Books), pp. 26 - 30. [819 pp.]","Atamehr, A. & Alaei, M. (2006) Fauna of aquatic beetles (Coleoptera) collected in Ardebil region. Proceedings of 17 th Iranian Plant Protection Congress, 81 pp."]}

Aulonogyrus spp. Distribution in Iran. Guilan (Hosseinie 1995a), Mazandaran (Hosseinie 1995b)., Published as part of Van Vondel, Bernhard J., Ostovan, Hadi & Ghahari, Hassan, 2017, An annotated checklist of Iranian Myxophaga (Hydroscaphidae, Sphaeriusidae) and Adephaga (Gyrinidae, Haliplidae, Noteridae, Rhysodidae) (Insecta: Coleoptera), pp. 225-246 in Zootaxa 4216 (3) on page 230, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.231790, {"references":["Hosseinie, S. O. (1995 a) Report on the aquatic Coleoptera of Gilan, a province in the north of Iran. Latissimus (Newsletter of the Balfour-Browne Club), 6, 1 - 11.","Hosseinie, S. O. (1995 b) Water beetles in the Mazandaran province, north of Iran. Latissimus (Newsletter of the Balfour- Browne Club), 5, 1 - 20."]}

Gyrinus spp. Distribution in Iran. Ardabil (Atamehr & Alaei 2006 - identified as G. dejeani), Bushehr (Hosseinie 1991), Fars (Hosseinie 1974), Isfahan (Shayeghi et al. 2014), Mazandaran (Hosseinie 1995b).

Noterus spp. Distribution in Iran. Guilan (Hosseinie 1995a), Khuzestan (Hosseinie 1994), Mazandaran (Hosseinie 1995b).

Noterus crassicornis (M��ller, 1776) Distribution in Iran. East Azarbaijan (Samin et al. 2015). General distribution. Austria, Belgium, Bosnia Hercegovina, Bulgaria, Byelorussia, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Great Britain, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Kashmir, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Macedonia, Moldavia, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Russia (East Siberia, Central European Territory, North European Territory, South European Territory, West Siberia), Slovakia, Slovenia, Sweden, Turkey, Ukraine, former Yugoslavia (Nilsson 2011), Iran (Nilsson 2003, 2011; Nardi 2004; Toledo 2004). Comments. Living in permanent pools, ponds, ditches, marshes (Drost et al. 1992)., Published as part of Van Vondel, Bernhard J., Ostovan, Hadi & Ghahari, Hassan, 2017, An annotated checklist of Iranian Myxophaga (Hydroscaphidae, Sphaeriusidae) and Adephaga (Gyrinidae, Haliplidae, Noteridae, Rhysodidae) (Insecta: Coleoptera), pp. 225-246 in Zootaxa 4216 (3) on page 238, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.231790, {"references":["Samin, N., Jedryczkowski, W. B. & Sakenin Chelav, H. (2015) A faunistic study on the Coleoptera (Insecta) from some aquatic and semi-aquatic ecosystems in northwestern Iran. Far Eastern Entomologist, 302, 18 - 24.","Nilsson, A. N. (2011) A World Catalogue of the Family Noteridae, or the Burrowing Water Beetles (Coleoptera, Adephaga) Version 16. VIII. 2011. Avaliable from: http: // www 2. emg. umu. se / projects / biginst / andersn / WCN / wcn _ index. htm (Accessed 4 Jan. 2017)","Nilsson, A. N. (2003) Family Noteridae, 33 - 35. In: Lobl, I. & Smetana, A. (Eds.), Catalogue of Palaearctic Coleoptera. Vol. 1. Archostemata - Myxophaga - Adephaga. Stenstrup, Denmark (Apollo Books), pp. 819 - 819.","Nardi, G. (2004) Adephagous water beetles: faunistics, ecology and conservation (Coleoptera, Gyrinidae, Haliplidae, Noteridae, Dytiscidae). Invertebrati di una foresta della Pianura Padana, Bosco della Fontana. Secondo contributo - Conservazione Habitat Invertebrati, 3, 65 - 115.","Toledo, M. (2004) Diagnosis of Noterus ponticus Sharp, 1882 (Coleoptera: Noteridae). Koleopterologische Rundschau, 74, 33 - 43.","Drost, M. B. P., Cuppen, H. P. J. J., Nieukerken, E. J. & Schreijer, M. (1992) De waterkevers van Nederland. Uitgeverij K. N. N. V., Utrecht, 280 pp."]}

Family Rhysodidae Laporte, 1840 Comments. Azadbakhsh & Nozari (2015) considered Rhysodidae as a subfamily of Carabidae while it is a valid family of Adephaga (Bouchard et al. 2011; A. Newton - personal communication)., Published as part of Van Vondel, Bernhard J., Ostovan, Hadi & Ghahari, Hassan, 2017, An annotated checklist of Iranian Myxophaga (Hydroscaphidae, Sphaeriusidae) and Adephaga (Gyrinidae, Haliplidae, Noteridae, Rhysodidae) (Insecta: Coleoptera), pp. 225-246 in Zootaxa 4216 (3) on page 239, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.231790, {"references":["Azadbakhsh, S. & Nozari, J. (2015) Checklist of the Iranian ground beetles (Coleoptera, Carabidae). Zootaxa, 4024 (1), 001 - 108.","Bouchard, P., Bousquet, Y., Davies, A. E., Alonso-Zarazaga, M. A., Lawrence, J. F., Lyal, C. H. C., Newton, A. F., Reid, C. A. M., Schmitt, M., Slipinski, S. A. & Smith, A. B. T. (2011) Family-group names in Coleoptera (Insecta). ZooKeys, 88, 1 - 972. https: // doi. org / 10.3897 / zookeys. 88.807"]}

Aulonogyrus (Aulonogyrus) concinnus (Klug, 1834) Distribution in Iran. Alborz (Hematyian et al. 2010), Fars (Gu��orguiev 1965b; Hosseinie 1978; Arefnia 2004), Guilan (Gu��orguiev 1965c; Cox & Cox 1982), Ilam, Isfahan, Semnan (Peschet 1914), Kerman (Ochs 1953; Gu��orguiev 1965c), Khuzestan (Ochs 1953; Ghodrati et al. 2014), Lorestan (Peschet 1914; Ochs 1953), Mazandaran, Qom (Ochs 1953), Sistan & Baluchestan (Legros 1972), West Azarbaijan (Ochs 1953; Khalifani et al. 2012), Iran (no locality cited) (Hafezieh 1997). General distribution. Afghanistan, Algeria, Belgium, Bosnia Herzegovina, Bulgaria, China (Qinghai), Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, France, Germany, Georgia, Greece, Iran, Iraq, Italy, Kazakhstan, Lebanon, Macedonia, Mongolia, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Russia (Central and South European Territory), Saudi Arabia, Slovakia, Spain, Syria, Tadzhikistan, ���Transcaucasia���, Turkey, Uzbekistan (Mazzoldi 2003), Iran (Gu��orguiev 1981; Darilmaz & Kiyak 2006; Kiyak et al. 2006). Comments. In pond with rich vegetation and in brooks (Ochs 1953). On surface of clear, small, slow moving streams (Hosseinie 1978). Along coasts of lakes, watering canals and slowly flowing streams; fresh and brackish water (Kiyak et al. 2006). Found in marshes (Cox & Cox 1982). In water resources in crop fields (Khalifani et al. 2012). Up to an altitude of 3200 m (Ochs 1953)., Published as part of Van Vondel, Bernhard J., Ostovan, Hadi & Ghahari, Hassan, 2017, An annotated checklist of Iranian Myxophaga (Hydroscaphidae, Sphaeriusidae) and Adephaga (Gyrinidae, Haliplidae, Noteridae, Rhysodidae) (Insecta: Coleoptera), pp. 225-246 in Zootaxa 4216 (3) on pages 229-230, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.231790, {"references":["Hematyian, R., Vafaei Shushtari, R. & Ebrahimi, E. (2010) Fauna and distribution of aquatic Coleoptera in parts of central Alborz. Proceedings of 19 th Iranian Plant Protection Congress, 137 pp.","Gueorguiev, V. B. (1965 b) Zoologische Ergebnisse der osterreichischen Iran, Expedition 1945 / 50, Karakorum - Expedition, 1958, und Irak Expedition, 1963 (Coleoptera: Dytiscideae et Gyrinidae). Reinchenbachia, 5, 113 - 118.","Hosseinie, S. O. (1978) Aquatic Coleoptera from South-western Iran (Haliplidae, Dytiscidae and Gyrinidae, with a note on Hydrophilidae). The Coleopterists Bulletin, 32 (2), 167 - 176.","Arefnia, A. (2004) Species diversity of aquatic insects in Ghare-Agag River in Jahrom region. M. Sc thesis of Entomology, Islamic Azad University, Science and Research Branch, 129 pp.","Gueorguiev, V. B. (1965 c) Sur la faune des coleopteres hydrocanthares d'Iran. Bulletin de l'Institut de Zoologie et Musee, Academie Bulgare des Sciences, 19, 101 - 117.","Cox, M. L. & Cox, P. (1982) The water beetles of Amir Kelaieh and Pahlaer marshes in Northern Iran (Coleoptera; Dytiscidae, Haliplidae, Gyrinidae and Hydrophilidae). Entomology News, 118, 145 - 156.","Peschet, R. (1914) Dytiscidae et Gyrinidae recueillis par la delegation scientifique en Perse. (Mission J. de Morgan, 1904) (Coleopt.). Annales de la Societe Entomologique de France, 83, 225 - 232.","Ochs, G. (1953) Ergebnisse der Osterreichischen Iran-Expedition 1949 / 50: Gyrinidae (Coleoptera). Sitzungsberichte der Kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Klasse, 162, 217 - 225.","Ghodrati, A., Esfandiari, M. & Khadempour, A. (2014) Aquatic insects as an index for Safety of rivers, with introducing some species of aquatic Coleoptera in Karun River. 1 st National Conference of Agriculture Contaminations and Food Safety, University of Mollasani, Khuzestan, 26 - 27 February, 2014, pp. 1 - 4. [in Persian]","Legros, C. (1972) Contribution a la faune de l'Iran. 23. Coleopteres Hydrocanthares. Annales de la Societe Entomologique de France (N. S.), 8 (3), 573 - 578.","Khalifani, B., Atamehr, A. & Lotfalizadeh, H. (2012) Aquatic Coleoptera fauna of aquatic resources in crop fields in Naghadeh, Azarbaijan-e-Gharbi province, Iran. Journal of Field Crop Entomology, 1 (3), 27 - 38.","Hafezieh, M. (1997) A faunal study of Gyrinidae and Dryopidae of Iran (Coleoptera: Adephaga & Polyphaga). M. Sc thesis, University of Shiraz, Department of Biology.","Mazzoldi, P. (2003) Family Gyrinidae. In: Lobl, I. & Smetana, A. (Eds.), Catalogue of Palaearctic Coleoptera. Vol. 1. Archostemata - Myxophaga - Adephaga. Stenstrup, Denmark (Apollo Books), pp. 26 - 30. [819 pp.]","Gueorguiev, V. B. (1981) Resultat de L'expedition zoologique du musee national de Prague en Turquie Coleoptera: Haliplidae, Dytiscidae, Gyrinidae. Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae, 40, 399 - 424."]}

Noterus ponticus Sharp, 1882 Distribution in Iran. Fars (Hosseinie 1978), Khuzestan (Toledo 2004), Iran (no locality cited) (Nilsson 2003). General distribution. Iran, Iraq (Nilsson 2003, 2011). Comments. Prefers large, shallow, slow moving streams and marshy areas (Hosseinie 1978)., Published as part of Van Vondel, Bernhard J., Ostovan, Hadi & Ghahari, Hassan, 2017, An annotated checklist of Iranian Myxophaga (Hydroscaphidae, Sphaeriusidae) and Adephaga (Gyrinidae, Haliplidae, Noteridae, Rhysodidae) (Insecta: Coleoptera), pp. 225-246 in Zootaxa 4216 (3) on page 238, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.231790, {"references":["Hosseinie, S. O. (1978) Aquatic Coleoptera from South-western Iran (Haliplidae, Dytiscidae and Gyrinidae, with a note on Hydrophilidae). The Coleopterists Bulletin, 32 (2), 167 - 176.","Toledo, M. (2004) Diagnosis of Noterus ponticus Sharp, 1882 (Coleoptera: Noteridae). Koleopterologische Rundschau, 74, 33 - 43.","Nilsson, A. N. (2003) Family Noteridae, 33 - 35. In: Lobl, I. & Smetana, A. (Eds.), Catalogue of Palaearctic Coleoptera. Vol. 1. Archostemata - Myxophaga - Adephaga. Stenstrup, Denmark (Apollo Books), pp. 819 - 819.","Nilsson, A. N. (2011) A World Catalogue of the Family Noteridae, or the Burrowing Water Beetles (Coleoptera, Adephaga) Version 16. VIII. 2011. Avaliable from: http: // www 2. emg. umu. se / projects / biginst / andersn / WCN / wcn _ index. htm (Accessed 4 Jan. 2017)"]}

Gyrinus (Gyrinus) mithrae Zaitzev, 1908 Distribution in Iran. Guilan (Zaitzev 1908, Ochs 1942, 1953; Gu��orguiev 1965c; Cox & Cox 1982), Mazandaran (Legros 1972). General distribution. Azerbaijan, Iran (Mazzoldi 2003). Comments. Found in marshes (Cox & Cox 1982)., Published as part of Van Vondel, Bernhard J., Ostovan, Hadi & Ghahari, Hassan, 2017, An annotated checklist of Iranian Myxophaga (Hydroscaphidae, Sphaeriusidae) and Adephaga (Gyrinidae, Haliplidae, Noteridae, Rhysodidae) (Insecta: Coleoptera), pp. 225-246 in Zootaxa 4216 (3) on page 232, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.231790, {"references":["Zaitzev, P. (1908) Ubersicht der Palaarktischen Vertreter der Gattung Gyrinus (Linn.) Reg. (Coleoptera, Gyrinidae). Russkoe Entomologicheskoe Obozrenie, 7 (1907), 238 - 244.","Ochs, G. (1942) Ein neuer Gyrinus aus Persien nebst einigen Bemerkungen zu pal. Gyriniden (Coleoptera). Annales historiconaturales Musei nationalis hungarici, 35, 69 - 72.","Ochs, G. (1953) Ergebnisse der Osterreichischen Iran-Expedition 1949 / 50: Gyrinidae (Coleoptera). Sitzungsberichte der Kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Klasse, 162, 217 - 225.","Gueorguiev, V. B. (1965 c) Sur la faune des coleopteres hydrocanthares d'Iran. Bulletin de l'Institut de Zoologie et Musee, Academie Bulgare des Sciences, 19, 101 - 117.","Cox, M. L. & Cox, P. (1982) The water beetles of Amir Kelaieh and Pahlaer marshes in Northern Iran (Coleoptera; Dytiscidae, Haliplidae, Gyrinidae and Hydrophilidae). Entomology News, 118, 145 - 156.","Legros, C. (1972) Contribution a la faune de l'Iran. 23. Coleopteres Hydrocanthares. Annales de la Societe Entomologique de France (N. S.), 8 (3), 573 - 578.","Mazzoldi, P. (2003) Family Gyrinidae. In: Lobl, I. & Smetana, A. (Eds.), Catalogue of Palaearctic Coleoptera. Vol. 1. Archostemata - Myxophaga - Adephaga. Stenstrup, Denmark (Apollo Books), pp. 26 - 30. [819 pp.]"]}

Aulonogyrus (Aulonogyrus) striatus (Fabricius, 1792) Distribution in Iran. Iran (no locality cited) (Gueorguiev 1981). General distribution. Algeria, Bulgaria, Canary Islands, Croatia, Cyprus, France, Greece, Israel, Italy, Lebanon, Morocco, Portugal, Slovenia, Spain, Syria, Tunisia, Turkey, former Yugoslavia (Mazzoldi 2003), Iran (Gueorguiev 1981; Kiyak et al. 2006). Comments. In puddles, fresh water (Kiyak et al. 2006)., Published as part of Van Vondel, Bernhard J., Ostovan, Hadi & Ghahari, Hassan, 2017, An annotated checklist of Iranian Myxophaga (Hydroscaphidae, Sphaeriusidae) and Adephaga (Gyrinidae, Haliplidae, Noteridae, Rhysodidae) (Insecta: Coleoptera), pp. 225-246 in Zootaxa 4216 (3) on page 230, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.231790, {"references":["Gueorguiev, V. B. (1981) Resultat de L'expedition zoologique du musee national de Prague en Turquie Coleoptera: Haliplidae, Dytiscidae, Gyrinidae. Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae, 40, 399 - 424.","Mazzoldi, P. (2003) Family Gyrinidae. In: Lobl, I. & Smetana, A. (Eds.), Catalogue of Palaearctic Coleoptera. Vol. 1. Archostemata - Myxophaga - Adephaga. Stenstrup, Denmark (Apollo Books), pp. 26 - 30. [819 pp.]"]}

Canthydrus diophtalmus (Reiche and Saulcy, 1855) Distribution in Iran. Fars, Khuzestan (Zahiri 1996; Hosseinie & Zahiri 1998; Ghodrati et al. 2014). General distribution. Algeria, Angola, Cameroon, Cyprus, Egypt, Ethiopia, Iraq, Israel, Italy (Sardinia, Sicily), Lebanon, Libya, Morocco, Senegal, Spain, Syria, Tunisia, Turkey, Zaire (Nilsson 2011), Iran (Nilsson 2003, 2011). Comments. Living in ponds (Cillo et al. 2016)., Published as part of Van Vondel, Bernhard J., Ostovan, Hadi & Ghahari, Hassan, 2017, An annotated checklist of Iranian Myxophaga (Hydroscaphidae, Sphaeriusidae) and Adephaga (Gyrinidae, Haliplidae, Noteridae, Rhysodidae) (Insecta: Coleoptera), pp. 225-246 in Zootaxa 4216 (3) on page 237, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.231790, {"references":["Zahiri, F. (1996) A faunal study of Haliplidae and Noteridae of the Fars and Khuzestan provinces (Coleoptera, Haliplidae and Noteridae). M. Sc thesis, University of Shiraz, Department of Biology.","Hosseinie, S. O. & Zahiri, F. (1998) Faunal study of Haliplidae and Noteridae of the Fars and Khuzestan provinces (Coleoptera, Haliplidae and Noteridae). Proceedings of 13 th Iranian Plant Protection Congress, 214 pp.","Ghodrati, A., Esfandiari, M. & Khadempour, A. (2014) Aquatic insects as an index for Safety of rivers, with introducing some species of aquatic Coleoptera in Karun River. 1 st National Conference of Agriculture Contaminations and Food Safety, University of Mollasani, Khuzestan, 26 - 27 February, 2014, pp. 1 - 4. [in Persian]","Nilsson, A. N. (2011) A World Catalogue of the Family Noteridae, or the Burrowing Water Beetles (Coleoptera, Adephaga) Version 16. VIII. 2011. Avaliable from: http: // www 2. emg. umu. se / projects / biginst / andersn / WCN / wcn _ index. htm (Accessed 4 Jan. 2017)","Nilsson, A. N. (2003) Family Noteridae, 33 - 35. In: Lobl, I. & Smetana, A. (Eds.), Catalogue of Palaearctic Coleoptera. Vol. 1. Archostemata - Myxophaga - Adephaga. Stenstrup, Denmark (Apollo Books), pp. 819 - 819.","Cillo, D., Dessi, L., Ancona, C. & Bazzato, E. (2016) Nuovo data corologico su Canthydrus diophthalmus (Reiche & Saulcy 1855) nella Sardegna sud orientale (Coleoptera, Noteridae). Revista gaditana de Entomologia, 7 (1), 299 - 304."]}

Clinidium (Arctoclinidium) marginicolle Reitter, 1889 Distribution in Iran. Mazandaran (Schmidt 2016), Iran (no locality cited) (Bell & Bell 1978; Bell 2003; Brustel & Gouix 2011; Azadbakhsh & Nozari 2015). General distribution. Azerbaijan, Iran (Bell 2003). Comments. Up to an altitude of 1600-1850 m (Schmidt 2016)., Published as part of Van Vondel, Bernhard J., Ostovan, Hadi & Ghahari, Hassan, 2017, An annotated checklist of Iranian Myxophaga (Hydroscaphidae, Sphaeriusidae) and Adephaga (Gyrinidae, Haliplidae, Noteridae, Rhysodidae) (Insecta: Coleoptera), pp. 225-246 in Zootaxa 4216 (3) on page 239, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.231790, {"references":["Schmidt, U. (2016) Picture of Clinidium marginicolle from Iran, prov. Mazandaran, vic. Kolijak, 1600 - 1850 m, leg. det. A. Skale, 4 / 5. v. 2010. Avaliable from: http: // www. Flickr. com / photos / coleoptera-us / 23820959109 (Accessed 4 Jan. 2017)","Bell, R. T. & Bell, J. R. (1978) Rhysodini of the world. Part I. A new classification of the tribe, and a synopsis of Omoglymmius subgenus Nitiglymmius, new subgenus (Coleoptera: Carabidae or Rhysodidae). Quaestiones Entomologicae, 14, 43 - 88.","Bell, R. T. (2003) Family Rhysodidae, 78 - 79. In: Lobl, I. & Smetana, A. (Eds.), Catalogue of Palaearctic Coleoptera. Vol. 1. Archostemata - Myxophaga - Adephaga. Stenstrup, Denmark (Apollo Books), pp. 819 - 819.","Brustel, H. & Gouix, N. (2011) Coleopteres Rhysodidae en France: donnees complementaires pour Rhysodes sulcatus (F., 1787) et incitation a la recherche d'Omoglymmius (s. s.) germari (Ganglbauer, 1892). L'Entomologiste, tome 67, n ° 6, 321 - 325.","Azadbakhsh, S. & Nozari, J. (2015) Checklist of the Iranian ground beetles (Coleoptera, Carabidae). Zootaxa, 4024 (1), 001 - 108."]}

Canthydrus laetabilis (Walker, 1858) Distribution in Iran. Sistan & Baluchestan (Fery et al. 2012). General distribution. Bangladesh, India (Uttar Pradesh), Myanmar, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka (Nilsson 2011). Comments. Living in ponds (Fery et al. 2012, Sinha et al. 2015)., Published as part of Van Vondel, Bernhard J., Ostovan, Hadi & Ghahari, Hassan, 2017, An annotated checklist of Iranian Myxophaga (Hydroscaphidae, Sphaeriusidae) and Adephaga (Gyrinidae, Haliplidae, Noteridae, Rhysodidae) (Insecta: Coleoptera), pp. 225-246 in Zootaxa 4216 (3) on page 237, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.231790, {"references":["Fery, H., Pesic, V. & Darvishzadeh, I. (2012) Faunistic notes on some Hydradephaga from the Khuzestan, Hormozgan and Sistan & Baluchestan provinces in Iran, with descriptive notes on the female of Glareadessus franzi Wewalka & Bistrom 1998 (Coleoptera, Dytiscidae, Noteridae). Linzer biologische Beitrage, 44 / 2, 1057 - 1070.","Nilsson, A. N. (2011) A World Catalogue of the Family Noteridae, or the Burrowing Water Beetles (Coleoptera, Adephaga) Version 16. VIII. 2011. Avaliable from: http: // www 2. emg. umu. se / projects / biginst / andersn / WCN / wcn _ index. htm (Accessed 4 Jan. 2017)","Sinha, M., Chakraborty, S. K. & Chakravorty, P. P. (2015) Effect of industrial effluents from iron and steel company on benthic macroinvertebrate communities of fresh water ponds in India. The International Journal of Science & Technoledge, 3 (1), 81 - 91"]}

Gyrinus (Gyrinus) colymbus Erichson, 1837 Distribution in Iran. Iran (no locality cited) (Gu��orguiev 1981; Mazzoldi 2003). General distribution. Armenia, Austria, Bosnia Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Byelorussia, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iran, Italy, Kazakhstan, Lebanon, Macedonia, Poland, Russia (Southern Territory), Slovakia, Switzerland, Syria, Turkey, former Yugoslavia (Mazzoldi 2003). Comments. Living in fresh and brackish water (Drost 2009)., Published as part of Van Vondel, Bernhard J., Ostovan, Hadi & Ghahari, Hassan, 2017, An annotated checklist of Iranian Myxophaga (Hydroscaphidae, Sphaeriusidae) and Adephaga (Gyrinidae, Haliplidae, Noteridae, Rhysodidae) (Insecta: Coleoptera), pp. 225-246 in Zootaxa 4216 (3) on page 231, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.231790, {"references":["Gueorguiev, V. B. (1981) Resultat de L'expedition zoologique du musee national de Prague en Turquie Coleoptera: Haliplidae, Dytiscidae, Gyrinidae. Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae, 40, 399 - 424.","Mazzoldi, P. (2003) Family Gyrinidae. In: Lobl, I. & Smetana, A. (Eds.), Catalogue of Palaearctic Coleoptera. Vol. 1. Archostemata - Myxophaga - Adephaga. Stenstrup, Denmark (Apollo Books), pp. 26 - 30. [819 pp.]","Drost, B. (2009) Notities over de Nederlandse status en de Europese verspreiding van Gyrinus natator, G. colymbus en G. urinator (Coleoptera: Gyrinidae). Entomologische Berichten, 69 (4), 136 - 141."]}

Haliplus (Neohaliplus) lineatocollis (Marsham, 1802) Distribution in Iran. Alborz (Darilmaz et al. 2013), Fars (Zahiri 1996; Hosseini & Zahiri 1998; Vondel: Table 1), Khuzestan (Zahiri 1996; Hosseinie & Zahiri 1998), Guilan (Ghahari & Jedryczkowski 2011; Gu��orguiev 1965c), Hamadan (Vondel: Table 1), Isfahan (Vondel: Table 1), Markazi (Vafaei et al. 2004; Vafaei 2005), Mazandaran (Ghahari & Jedryczkowski 2011). General distribution. Albania, Luxembourg, Montenegro, Sudan (Vondel 2013), Algeria, Armenia, Austria, Azerbaijan, Belgium, Bosnia Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Byelorussia, Canary Islands, ���Caucasus���, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Egypt, Eritrea, Ethiopia, France, Germany, Great Britain, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Lebanon, Libya, Liechtenstein, Macedonia, Malta, Morocco, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia (Central and South European Territory), Saudi Arabia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Syria, Tchad, ���Transcaucasia���, Tunisia, Turkey, Ukraine, Yemen (Vondel 2005), Iran (Vondel 2003, 2005; Incekara 2007). Comments. Living in all kinds of fresh and also in brackish water bodies, stagnant or slowly running. Recorded from altitudes up to 2200 m (Vondel 1997)., Published as part of Van Vondel, Bernhard J., Ostovan, Hadi & Ghahari, Hassan, 2017, An annotated checklist of Iranian Myxophaga (Hydroscaphidae, Sphaeriusidae) and Adephaga (Gyrinidae, Haliplidae, Noteridae, Rhysodidae) (Insecta: Coleoptera), pp. 225-246 in Zootaxa 4216 (3) on page 236, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.231790, {"references":["Darilmaz, M. C., Incekara, U. & Vafaei, R. (2013) Contributions to the knowledge of Iranian aquatic Adephaga (Coleoptera). Spixiana, 36 (1), 149 - 152.","Zahiri, F. (1996) A faunal study of Haliplidae and Noteridae of the Fars and Khuzestan provinces (Coleoptera, Haliplidae and Noteridae). M. Sc thesis, University of Shiraz, Department of Biology.","Hosseinie, S. O. & Zahiri, F. (1998) Faunal study of Haliplidae and Noteridae of the Fars and Khuzestan provinces (Coleoptera, Haliplidae and Noteridae). Proceedings of 13 th Iranian Plant Protection Congress, 214 pp.","Ghahari, H. & Jedryczkowski, W. B. (2011) A faunistic survey on some families of Coleoptera (Insecta) from Iran. Calodema, 175, 1 - 4.","Gueorguiev, V. B. (1965 c) Sur la faune des coleopteres hydrocanthares d'Iran. Bulletin de l'Institut de Zoologie et Musee, Academie Bulgare des Sciences, 19, 101 - 117.","Vafaei, R., Ostovan, H., Kamali. K. & Goldasteh, S. (2004) Faunal study of aquatic Coleoptera in Markazi province. Proceedings of the 1 st Symposium of Ecologists of the Republic of Montenegro, Tivat, pp. 65 - 66.","Vafaei, R. (2005) Biodiversity of aquatic Coleoptera and aquatic Hemiptera from Markazi province and the biology of Notonecta viridis Delcourt. Ph. D dissertation, Islamic Azad University, Science and Research Branch, 255 pp.","Vondel, B. J. van. (2013) World Catalogue of Haliplidae-corrections and additions, 2 (Coleoptera: Haliplidae). Koleopterologische Rundschau, 83, 23 - 34.","Vondel, B. J. van. (2005) Family Haliplidae (Coleoptera, Adephaga), pp. 20 - 86. In: Nilsson, A. N. & van Vondel, B. J. (Eds.), Amphizoidae, Aspidytidae, Haliplidae, Noteridae and Paelobiidae (Coleoptera, Adephaga). World Catalogue of Insects, 7, 1 - 171.","Vondel, B. J. van. (2003) Family Haliplidae, pp. 3 0 - 33. In: Lobl, I. & Smetana, A. (Eds.), Catalogue of Palaearctic Coleoptera. Vol. 1. Archostemata - Myxophaga - Adephaga. Stenstrup, Denmark (Apollo Books), 819 pp.","Incekara, U. (2007) Contribution to the knowledge of Hydrophilidae and Haliplidae (Coleoptera) fauna of Algeria. Turkiye Entomoloji Dergisi, 31 (4), 291 - 295.","Vondel, B. J. van. (1997) Haliplidae. Susswasserfauna von Mitteleuropa, 20 (2), 1 - 95."]}

Orectochilus (Orectochilus) villosus involvens (Faldermann, 1836) Distribution in Iran. Guilan (Bodemeyer 1927), Iran (no locality cited) (Shaverdo 2003). General distribution. Armenia, Georgia, Iraq, Turkey, Uzbekistan (Mazzoldi 2003), Iran. Comments. Bodemeyer (1927) reports this species from an algae-rich pond in the Elbruz Mountains., Published as part of Van Vondel, Bernhard J., Ostovan, Hadi & Ghahari, Hassan, 2017, An annotated checklist of Iranian Myxophaga (Hydroscaphidae, Sphaeriusidae) and Adephaga (Gyrinidae, Haliplidae, Noteridae, Rhysodidae) (Insecta: Coleoptera), pp. 225-246 in Zootaxa 4216 (3) on page 232, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.231790, {"references":["Bodemeyer, B. von. (1927) Ueber meine entomologischen Reisen nach Kleinasien (1911), Ost-Sibirien, Schilka und Amur (1912), Tunis, Oasis Gafsa, Khroumerie (1913) und Iran, Elbursgebirge (1914). Vol. 1. Kleinasien. Stuttgart: A. Kernen, 85 pp.","Shaverdo, H. V. (2003) Adephagous water beetles of Armenia (Coleoptera: Dytiscidae, Gyrinidae, Haliplidae, Noteridae). Koleopterologische Rundschau, 73, 31 - 42.","Mazzoldi, P. (2003) Family Gyrinidae. In: Lobl, I. & Smetana, A. (Eds.), Catalogue of Palaearctic Coleoptera. Vol. 1. Archostemata - Myxophaga - Adephaga. Stenstrup, Denmark (Apollo Books), pp. 26 - 30. [819 pp.]"]}

Gyrinus (Gyrinus) distinctus (Aub��, 1838) Distribution in Iran. Alborz (Hematyian et al. 2010), Fars (Hosseinie 1978), Guilan (Gu��orguiev 1965c; Darilmaz et al. 2013), Khuzestan (Ghodrati et al. 2014), Lorestan (Farzam Motlagh et al. 2012), Markazi (Vafaei 2005; Vafaei et al. 2004), Mazandaran (Ochs 1953; Vafaei et al. 2009), Sistan & Baluchistan (Ochs 1957), Tehran (Vafaei et al. 2009), Iran (no locality cited) (Hafezieh 1997). General distribution. Afghanistan, Austria, Azerbaijan, Belgium, Bosnia Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Byelorussia, Croatia, China (Nei Mongol, Xinjiang, Xizang), Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Egypt, Finland, France, Great Britain, Germany, Greece, Hungary, India (Kashmir), Iraq, Israel, Italy, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Lebanon, Lybia, Macedonia, Mongolia, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Russia (Central, Southern and Northern European Territory), Slovakia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Syria, ���Transcaucasia���, Turkey, Uzbekistan, former Yugoslavia (Mazzoldi 2003), Iran (Gu��orguiev 1981; Mazzoldi 2003; Darilmaz & Kiyak 2006; Kiyak et al. 2006). Comments. This species has a dark ventral side. Specimens with a light ventral side were described by R��gimbart, 1883 as G. fairmairi. Generaly last ���species��� is considered as an aberration of G. distinctus. Ochs (1953), however, never found intermediate forms, at least leaving the discussion open if fairmairi is just an aberration of distinctus. Therefor records of G. fairmairi or G. distinctus faimairi are treated separately below. Bodemeyer (1927) collected Gyrinus natator Linn��, 1758 in Guilan, in a pool in the Elbruz Mountains, but it most likely concerns G. distinctus. Along coasts of dam lakes and slowly flowing streams; fresh and brackish water (Kiyat et al. 2006). On surface of clear, small, slow-moving streams (Hosseinie 1978). Up to an altitude of 2100 m (Ochs 1953)., Published as part of Van Vondel, Bernhard J., Ostovan, Hadi & Ghahari, Hassan, 2017, An annotated checklist of Iranian Myxophaga (Hydroscaphidae, Sphaeriusidae) and Adephaga (Gyrinidae, Haliplidae, Noteridae, Rhysodidae) (Insecta: Coleoptera), pp. 225-246 in Zootaxa 4216 (3) on page 231, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.231790, {"references":["Hematyian, R., Vafaei Shushtari, R. & Ebrahimi, E. (2010) Fauna and distribution of aquatic Coleoptera in parts of central Alborz. Proceedings of 19 th Iranian Plant Protection Congress, 137 pp.","Hosseinie, S. O. (1978) Aquatic Coleoptera from South-western Iran (Haliplidae, Dytiscidae and Gyrinidae, with a note on Hydrophilidae). The Coleopterists Bulletin, 32 (2), 167 - 176.","Gueorguiev, V. B. (1965 c) Sur la faune des coleopteres hydrocanthares d'Iran. Bulletin de l'Institut de Zoologie et Musee, Academie Bulgare des Sciences, 19, 101 - 117.","Darilmaz, M. C., Incekara, U. & Vafaei, R. (2013) Contributions to the knowledge of Iranian aquatic Adephaga (Coleoptera). Spixiana, 36 (1), 149 - 152.","Ghodrati, A., Esfandiari, M. & Khadempour, A. (2014) Aquatic insects as an index for Safety of rivers, with introducing some species of aquatic Coleoptera in Karun River. 1 st National Conference of Agriculture Contaminations and Food Safety, University of Mollasani, Khuzestan, 26 - 27 February, 2014, pp. 1 - 4. [in Persian]","Farzam Motlagh, F., Vafaei Shoushtari, R. & Sanatgar, E. (2012) Faunistic study of the aquatic beetles (Coleoptera: Adephaga) of Khoramabad (Lorestan province). Proceedings of 20 th Iranian Plant Protection Congress, 153 pp.","Vafaei, R. (2005) Biodiversity of aquatic Coleoptera and aquatic Hemiptera from Markazi province and the biology of Notonecta viridis Delcourt. Ph. D dissertation, Islamic Azad University, Science and Research Branch, 255 pp.","Vafaei, R., Ostovan, H., Kamali. K. & Goldasteh, S. (2004) Faunal study of aquatic Coleoptera in Markazi province. Proceedings of the 1 st Symposium of Ecologists of the Republic of Montenegro, Tivat, pp. 65 - 66.","Ochs, G. (1953) Ergebnisse der Osterreichischen Iran-Expedition 1949 / 50: Gyrinidae (Coleoptera). Sitzungsberichte der Kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Klasse, 162, 217 - 225.","Vafaei, R., Darilmaz, M. C., Nazari, E., Incekara, U. & Piazak, N. (2009) Contributions to the knowledge of Iranian aquatic Coleoptera fauna (Dytiscidae, Gyrinidae, Helophoridae and Hydrophilidae) with new records and notes on the rare species Coelostoma transcaspicum Reitter, 1906. Acta entomologica serbica, 14 (1), 101 - 107.","Ochs, G. (1957) Zur Gyriniden-Fauna des Iran 1954 und 1956 (Coleopt.) Jh. Ver. vaterl. naturk. Wurttemberg, 112, 1 - 130.","Hafezieh, M. (1997) A faunal study of Gyrinidae and Dryopidae of Iran (Coleoptera: Adephaga & Polyphaga). M. Sc thesis, University of Shiraz, Department of Biology.","Mazzoldi, P. (2003) Family Gyrinidae. In: Lobl, I. & Smetana, A. (Eds.), Catalogue of Palaearctic Coleoptera. Vol. 1. Archostemata - Myxophaga - Adephaga. Stenstrup, Denmark (Apollo Books), pp. 26 - 30. [819 pp.]","Gueorguiev, V. B. (1981) Resultat de L'expedition zoologique du musee national de Prague en Turquie Coleoptera: Haliplidae, Dytiscidae, Gyrinidae. Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae, 40, 399 - 424.","Bodemeyer, B. von. (1927) Ueber meine entomologischen Reisen nach Kleinasien (1911), Ost-Sibirien, Schilka und Amur (1912), Tunis, Oasis Gafsa, Khroumerie (1913) und Iran, Elbursgebirge (1914). Vol. 1. Kleinasien. Stuttgart: A. Kernen, 85 pp."]}

Haliplus (Liaphlus) flavicollis Sturm, 1834 Distribution in Iran. Markazi (Vondel: Tabel 1), Mazandaran (Mousavi et al. 2016). General distribution. Austria, Belgium, Bosnia Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Byelorussia, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Great Britain, Greece, Hungary, Iran, Iraq, Ireland, Italy, Kazakhstan, Latvia, Luxembourg, Macedonia, Mongolia, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Romania, Russia (Central, North and South European Territory, West Siberia), Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, ���Transcaucasia���, ���Turkestan���, Turkey, Ukraine, former Yugoslavia (Vondel 2005), Georgia, Montenegro, Serbia (Vondel 2013), Uzbekistan (Vondel 2007). Comments. Living in clean and clear stagnant or very slowly running water of lakes, ditches, canals and pools with rich vegetation. Also recorded from brackish water (Vondel 1997). In rice fields (Mousavi 2016)., Published as part of Van Vondel, Bernhard J., Ostovan, Hadi & Ghahari, Hassan, 2017, An annotated checklist of Iranian Myxophaga (Hydroscaphidae, Sphaeriusidae) and Adephaga (Gyrinidae, Haliplidae, Noteridae, Rhysodidae) (Insecta: Coleoptera), pp. 225-246 in Zootaxa 4216 (3) on page 235, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.231790, {"references":["Mousavi, A., Marjanyan, M. A. & Kalashian, M. Yu. (2016) Contribution to the knowledge of the fauna of aquatic Adephaga (Coleoptera) of Mazadaran province of Iran (Families Haliplidae and Dytiscidae). Humanity space International almanac Vol. 5, Supplement 2, 2016, 18 - 21.","Vondel, B. J. van. (2005) Family Haliplidae (Coleoptera, Adephaga), pp. 20 - 86. In: Nilsson, A. N. & van Vondel, B. J. (Eds.), Amphizoidae, Aspidytidae, Haliplidae, Noteridae and Paelobiidae (Coleoptera, Adephaga). World Catalogue of Insects, 7, 1 - 171.","Vondel, B. J. van. (2013) World Catalogue of Haliplidae-corrections and additions, 2 (Coleoptera: Haliplidae). Koleopterologische Rundschau, 83, 23 - 34.","Vondel, B. J. van. (2007) World Catalogue of Haliplidae-corrections and additions, 1 (Coleoptera: Haliplidae). Koleopterologische Rundschau, 77, 89 - 96.","Vondel, B. J. van. (1997) Haliplidae. Susswasserfauna von Mitteleuropa, 20 (2), 1 - 95."]}

Canthydrus luctuosus Aub��, 1838 Distribution in Iran. Iran (no locality cited) (Nilsson 2003). General Distribution. Cambodia, India, Indonesia (Sumatra), Iran, Iraq, Sri Lanka, Syria, Vietnam, ���Arabia��� (Nilsson 2011). Comments. Living in rivers (Pradhan et al. 2003) and ponds (Sinha 2015)., Published as part of Van Vondel, Bernhard J., Ostovan, Hadi & Ghahari, Hassan, 2017, An annotated checklist of Iranian Myxophaga (Hydroscaphidae, Sphaeriusidae) and Adephaga (Gyrinidae, Haliplidae, Noteridae, Rhysodidae) (Insecta: Coleoptera), pp. 225-246 in Zootaxa 4216 (3) on pages 237-238, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.231790, {"references":["Nilsson, A. N. (2003) Family Noteridae, 33 - 35. In: Lobl, I. & Smetana, A. (Eds.), Catalogue of Palaearctic Coleoptera. Vol. 1. Archostemata - Myxophaga - Adephaga. Stenstrup, Denmark (Apollo Books), pp. 819 - 819.","Nilsson, A. N. (2011) A World Catalogue of the Family Noteridae, or the Burrowing Water Beetles (Coleoptera, Adephaga) Version 16. VIII. 2011. Avaliable from: http: // www 2. emg. umu. se / projects / biginst / andersn / WCN / wcn _ index. htm (Accessed 4 Jan. 2017)","Pradhan, P., Mishra, S. S., Majumdar, R. & Chakraborty, S. K. (2003) Environmental monitoring with special emphasis on biomonitoring - A prequisite for sustainable environmental management; A case study in dwarkeswar river of south west Bengal, India. In: Kumar, A., Bohra, C. & Singh, L. K. (Eds.) Environment, pollution and management. A. P. H. Publishing Corporation, New Delhi, pp. 87 - 103. [607 pp.]","Sinha, M., Chakraborty, S. K. & Chakravorty, P. P. (2015) Effect of industrial effluents from iron and steel company on benthic macroinvertebrate communities of fresh water ponds in India. The International Journal of Science & Technoledge, 3 (1), 81 - 91"]}

Gyrinus (Gyrinus) reitteri Ochs, 1942 Distribution in Iran. Lorestan (= Luristan, type locality - Gu��orguiev 1965a; Ochs 1942). General distribution. Iran, only known from the type locality (Mazzoldi 2003). Comments. No habitat details known., Published as part of Van Vondel, Bernhard J., Ostovan, Hadi & Ghahari, Hassan, 2017, An annotated checklist of Iranian Myxophaga (Hydroscaphidae, Sphaeriusidae) and Adephaga (Gyrinidae, Haliplidae, Noteridae, Rhysodidae) (Insecta: Coleoptera), pp. 225-246 in Zootaxa 4216 (3) on page 232, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.231790, {"references":["Ochs, G. (1942) Ein neuer Gyrinus aus Persien nebst einigen Bemerkungen zu pal. Gyriniden (Coleoptera). Annales historiconaturales Musei nationalis hungarici, 35, 69 - 72.","Gueorguiev, V. B. (1965 a) Notes sur les coleopteres hydrocanthares d'Iran (Dytiscidae et Gyrinidae). Reichenbachia, 4 (28), 255 - 259.","Mazzoldi, P. (2003) Family Gyrinidae. In: Lobl, I. & Smetana, A. (Eds.), Catalogue of Palaearctic Coleoptera. Vol. 1. Archostemata - Myxophaga - Adephaga. Stenstrup, Denmark (Apollo Books), pp. 26 - 30. [819 pp.]"]}

Haliplus (Liaphlus) maculatus Motschulsky, 1860 Distribution in Iran. Mazandaran (Darilmaz et al. 2013). General distribution. Afghanistan, Austria, Czech Republic, Greece, Hungary, Israel, Iraq, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Romania, Russia (South European Territory), Syria, Turkmenistan, Turkey (Vondel 2005), Bosnia & Herzegovina, Slovakia, Ukraine (Vondel 2007), Lebanon (Vondel 2013), Iran (Darilmaz et al. 2013). Comments. Living in brooks, temporary pools, lakes, ponds (Vondel 1997)., Published as part of Van Vondel, Bernhard J., Ostovan, Hadi & Ghahari, Hassan, 2017, An annotated checklist of Iranian Myxophaga (Hydroscaphidae, Sphaeriusidae) and Adephaga (Gyrinidae, Haliplidae, Noteridae, Rhysodidae) (Insecta: Coleoptera), pp. 225-246 in Zootaxa 4216 (3) on page 235, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.231790, {"references":["Darilmaz, M. C., Incekara, U. & Vafaei, R. (2013) Contributions to the knowledge of Iranian aquatic Adephaga (Coleoptera). Spixiana, 36 (1), 149 - 152.","Vondel, B. J. van. (2005) Family Haliplidae (Coleoptera, Adephaga), pp. 20 - 86. In: Nilsson, A. N. & van Vondel, B. J. (Eds.), Amphizoidae, Aspidytidae, Haliplidae, Noteridae and Paelobiidae (Coleoptera, Adephaga). World Catalogue of Insects, 7, 1 - 171.","Vondel, B. J. van. (2007) World Catalogue of Haliplidae-corrections and additions, 1 (Coleoptera: Haliplidae). Koleopterologische Rundschau, 77, 89 - 96.","Vondel, B. J. van. (2013) World Catalogue of Haliplidae-corrections and additions, 2 (Coleoptera: Haliplidae). Koleopterologische Rundschau, 83, 23 - 34.","Vondel, B. J. van. (1997) Haliplidae. Susswasserfauna von Mitteleuropa, 20 (2), 1 - 95."]}

Haliplus (Haliplidius) confinis Stephens, 1828 Material examined. Ilam province (Table 1). New record for Iran. General distribution. Austria, Belgium, Byelorussia, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Great Britain, Greece, Hungary, Iraq, Ireland, Italy, Kazakhstan, Latvia, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Russia (Central, North and South European Territory, East and West Siberia), Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, ���Transcaucasia���, Turkey, Ukraine, former Yugoslavia (Vondel 2005), China (Xinjiang) (Jia & Vondel 2011), Luxembourg, Montenegro (Vondel 2013). Comments. Living in fresh water among especially Characeans in lakes, ponds, stagnant parts of slowly running brooks, streamlets, but even in brackish water. Often found at depths of more than 1 m (Vondel 1997)., Published as part of Van Vondel, Bernhard J., Ostovan, Hadi & Ghahari, Hassan, 2017, An annotated checklist of Iranian Myxophaga (Hydroscaphidae, Sphaeriusidae) and Adephaga (Gyrinidae, Haliplidae, Noteridae, Rhysodidae) (Insecta: Coleoptera), pp. 225-246 in Zootaxa 4216 (3) on page 233, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.231790, {"references":["Vondel, B. J. van. (2005) Family Haliplidae (Coleoptera, Adephaga), pp. 20 - 86. In: Nilsson, A. N. & van Vondel, B. J. (Eds.), Amphizoidae, Aspidytidae, Haliplidae, Noteridae and Paelobiidae (Coleoptera, Adephaga). World Catalogue of Insects, 7, 1 - 171.","Jia, F. & Vondel, B. J. van. (2011) Annotated catalogue of the Haliplidae of China with the description of a new species and new records from China (Coleoptera, Adephaga). ZooKeys, 133, 1 - 17.","Vondel, B. J. van. (2013) World Catalogue of Haliplidae-corrections and additions, 2 (Coleoptera: Haliplidae). Koleopterologische Rundschau, 83, 23 - 34.","Vondel, B. J. van. (1997) Haliplidae. Susswasserfauna von Mitteleuropa, 20 (2), 1 - 95."]}

Haliplus (Liaphlus) abbreviatus Wehncke, 1880 Haliplus villiersi Legros, 1972. Distribution in Iran. Fars (Arefnia 2004), Sistan & Baluchestan (Legros 1972), West Azarbaijan (Khalifani et al. 2012; Vondel: Table 1). General distribution. Afghanistan, China (Xinjiang), Cyprus, Egypt, Iraq, Israel, Syria (Vondel 2005), Iran (Vondel 1991, 2003, 2005). Comments. In water resources in crop fields (Khalifani et al. 2012)., Published as part of Van Vondel, Bernhard J., Ostovan, Hadi & Ghahari, Hassan, 2017, An annotated checklist of Iranian Myxophaga (Hydroscaphidae, Sphaeriusidae) and Adephaga (Gyrinidae, Haliplidae, Noteridae, Rhysodidae) (Insecta: Coleoptera), pp. 225-246 in Zootaxa 4216 (3) on pages 234-235, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.231790, {"references":["Legros, C. (1972) Contribution a la faune de l'Iran. 23. Coleopteres Hydrocanthares. Annales de la Societe Entomologique de France (N. S.), 8 (3), 573 - 578.","Arefnia, A. (2004) Species diversity of aquatic insects in Ghare-Agag River in Jahrom region. M. Sc thesis of Entomology, Islamic Azad University, Science and Research Branch, 129 pp.","Khalifani, B., Atamehr, A. & Lotfalizadeh, H. (2012) Aquatic Coleoptera fauna of aquatic resources in crop fields in Naghadeh, Azarbaijan-e-Gharbi province, Iran. Journal of Field Crop Entomology, 1 (3), 27 - 38.","Vondel, B. J. van. (2005) Family Haliplidae (Coleoptera, Adephaga), pp. 20 - 86. In: Nilsson, A. N. & van Vondel, B. J. (Eds.), Amphizoidae, Aspidytidae, Haliplidae, Noteridae and Paelobiidae (Coleoptera, Adephaga). World Catalogue of Insects, 7, 1 - 171.","Vondel, B. J. van. (1991) Revision of the Palaearctic species of Haliplus subgenus Liaphlus Guignot (Coleoptera: Haliplidae). Tijdschrift Uoor Entomologie, 134, 75 - 144.","Vondel, B. J. van. (2003) Family Haliplidae, pp. 3 0 - 33. In: Lobl, I. & Smetana, A. (Eds.), Catalogue of Palaearctic Coleoptera. Vol. 1. Archostemata - Myxophaga - Adephaga. Stenstrup, Denmark (Apollo Books), 819 pp."]}

Peltodytes caesus (Duftschmid, 1805) Distribution in Iran. Alborz (Hematyian et al. 2010), East Azarbaijan (Atamehr 2002; Atamehr et al. 2004; Atamehr & Alaei 2010; Ghahari & Jedryczkowski 2011; Vondel: Table 1), Fars (Hosseinie 1974, 1978; Zahiri 1996; Hosseinie & Zahiri 1998; Vondel: Table 1), Golestan (Ghahari & Jedryczkowski 2011), Guilan (Gu��orguiev 1965c; Cox & Cox 1982; Kamali 2008; Vondel: Table 1), Khuzestan (Gu��orguiev 1965c; Zahiri 1996; Hosseinie & Zahiri 1998), Mazandaran (Darilmaz et al. 2013; Mousavi et al. 2016; Vondel: Table 1), Razavi Khorasan (Ghahari & Jedryczkowski 2011), West Azarbaijan (Ghahari & Jedryczkowski 2011; Samin et al. 2015). General distribution. Afghanistan, Albania, Algeria, Armenia, Austria, Azerbaijan, Belgium, Bosnia Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Byelorussia, ���Caucasus���, China (Xinjiang), Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, France, Germany, Great Britain, Greece, Hungary, Iraq, Israel, Italy, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Lebanon, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Macedonia, Morocco, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia (Central and South European Territory), Slovakia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Syria, Tadzhikistan, ���Transcaucasia���, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan, former Yugoslavia (Vondel 2005), Iran (Gu��orguiev 1981; Vondel 1992, 2003, 2005; Darilmaz & Kiyak 2006), Montenegro (Vondel 2013). Comments. Living in eutrophic fresh or occasionally brackish stagnant water of ponds and slowly running streams, marshes. Among vegetation of Batrachium, Callitriche, Elodea and Chara. Feeding on filamantous algae and probably Characeans (Vondel 1997). In rice fields (Mousavi et al. 2016), Published as part of Van Vondel, Bernhard J., Ostovan, Hadi & Ghahari, Hassan, 2017, An annotated checklist of Iranian Myxophaga (Hydroscaphidae, Sphaeriusidae) and Adephaga (Gyrinidae, Haliplidae, Noteridae, Rhysodidae) (Insecta: Coleoptera), pp. 225-246 in Zootaxa 4216 (3) on pages 236-237, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.231790, {"references":["Hematyian, R., Vafaei Shushtari, R. & Ebrahimi, E. (2010) Fauna and distribution of aquatic Coleoptera in parts of central Alborz. Proceedings of 19 th Iranian Plant Protection Congress, 137 pp.","Atamehr, A. (2002) A faunistical study of aquatic Coleoptera in Tabriz region, Iran and bioecological study on richness species. Ph. D. thesis, Islamic Azad University, 194 pp.","Atamehr, A., Kamali, K. & Ostovan, H. (2004) Fauna of aquatic beetles in Tabriz region. Proceedings of 16 th Iranian Plant Protection Congress, 123 pp.","Atamehr, A. & Alaei, M. (2010) Two aquatic beetles reported (Haliplidae: Coleoptera) from Azerbaijan, Iran. World Applied Sciences Journal, 11 (8), 918 - 923.","Ghahari, H. & Jedryczkowski, W. B. (2011) A faunistic survey on some families of Coleoptera (Insecta) from Iran. Calodema, 175, 1 - 4.","Hosseinie, S. O. (1974) Water beetles found in the vicinity of Shiraz, Iran (Coleoptera: Dytiscidae, Noteridae, Haliplidae, Gyrinidae, and Hydrophilidae). The Coleopterists Bulletin, 28 (4), 237 - 243.","Hosseinie, S. O. (1978) Aquatic Coleoptera from South-western Iran (Haliplidae, Dytiscidae and Gyrinidae, with a note on Hydrophilidae). The Coleopterists Bulletin, 32 (2), 167 - 176.","Zahiri, F. (1996) A faunal study of Haliplidae and Noteridae of the Fars and Khuzestan provinces (Coleoptera, Haliplidae and Noteridae). M. Sc thesis, University of Shiraz, Department of Biology.","Hosseinie, S. O. & Zahiri, F. 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Margarinotus (Stenister) obscurus (Kugelann, 1792) Distribution in Iran: East Azarbaijan (Kryzhanovskij 1974 as Margarinotus stercorarius (Hoffmann, 1803)), Fars (Dasht-Argen), Tehran (Elbourz) (Thérond 1967 as Paralister stercorarius (Hoffmann, 1803)), no locality cited (Lundyshev 2015). General distribution: Albania, Austria, Belgium, Bosnia Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Belarus, Canada, China, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Georgia, Germany, Hungary, Iran, Israel, Italy, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Liechtenstein, The Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia (Central European Territory, North European Territory, South European Territory), Serbia and Montenegro, Slovakia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Syria, Turkey, Turkmenistan, United Kingdom, Ukraine, USA., Published as part of Ghahari, Hassan, Mazur, Slawomir & Ostovan, Hadi, 2017, A Checklist of the Histeridae (Coleoptera: Histeroidea) of Iran, pp. 595-611 in The Coleopterists Bulletin 71 (3) on page 601, DOI: 10.1649/0010-065X-71.3.595, http://zenodo.org/record/5377439, {"references":["Kryzhanovskij, O. L. 1974. Results of the Czechoslovak- Iranian Entomological Expedition to Iran 1970. No. 11: Coleoptera, Histeridae. Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae (Supplement 6), pp. 109 - 118.","Therond, J. 1967. Contribution a la faune de l' Iran. 4. Coleopteres Histeridae. Annales de la Societe Entomologique de France (Nouvelle serie) 3 (4): 1093 - 1097.","Lundyshev, D. S. 2015. New records of Histeridae beetle species (Coleoptera) for Armenia. Euroasian Entomological Journal 14 (4): 374."]}

Margarinotus (Ptomister) brunneus (Fabricius, 1775) Distribution in Iran: Golestan (Gorgan), Mazandaran (Motel-Ghoo) (Thérond 1967 as Hister cadaverinus Hoffmann, 1803), East Azarbaijan (Kryzhanovskij 1974 as Margarinotus cadaverinus (Hoffmann, 1803)). General distribution: Albania, Austria, Belgium, Bosnia Herzegovina, Belarus, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iran, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, The Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Russia (Central European Territory, East Siberia, North European Territory, South European Territory, West Siberia), Serbia and Montenegro, Slovakia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, United Kingdom, Ukraine., Published as part of Ghahari, Hassan, Mazur, Slawomir & Ostovan, Hadi, 2017, A Checklist of the Histeridae (Coleoptera: Histeroidea) of Iran, pp. 595-611 in The Coleopterists Bulletin 71 (3) on page 601, DOI: 10.1649/0010-065X-71.3.595, http://zenodo.org/record/5377439, {"references":["Therond, J. 1967. Contribution a la faune de l' Iran. 4. Coleopteres Histeridae. Annales de la Societe Entomologique de France (Nouvelle serie) 3 (4): 1093 - 1097.","Kryzhanovskij, O. L. 1974. Results of the Czechoslovak- Iranian Entomological Expedition to Iran 1970. No. 11: Coleoptera, Histeridae. Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae (Supplement 6), pp. 109 - 118."]}