title: Batochares
text: # Batochares
  
  Batochares is an Afrotropical genus of water scavenger beetle in the family Hydrophilidae represented by three described species.
  
  ## Taxonomy
  
  The genus Batochares was described for the first time as a subgenus of Helochares by d’Orchymont in 1939; since the author did not explicitly designate a type species, the name was validated by fixing a Type species by Hansen in 1991.
  
  ## Description
  
  Small-sized beetles (3–4 mm), pale brown in coloration, usually with a mottled appearance. A diagnosis of the genus was presented by Girón and Short.
  
  ## Species
  
  * Batochares burgeoni (d'Orchymont, 1939)
  * Batochares byrrhus (d'Orchymont, 1939)
  * Batochares corrugatus (Balfour-Browne, 1958)
  