Glyphidrilus Horst 1889

The genus Glyphidrilus has widely distributed range from Tanzania in Africa to South Asia and Southeast Asia. In Asia many species were recorded from Yunnan, southwest China, Hainan, Indochina, Malaysia, Laos, Thailand, Singapore, and some Sunda Shelf islands such as Sumatra, Java, Borneo and Celebes (Horst 1893, Chen 1938, Gates 1958, 1972, Chen and Xu 1977, Shen and Yeo 2005, Chanabun et al. 2011, 2012a, b). It occurs along the river banks, lakes, canals, swamps and in paddy rice systems.