Updated Check-List of Darkling Beetles (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae) of West Bengal, India

Authors

  • V. D. Hegde
     Western Regional Centre, Zoological Survey of India, Vidyanagar, Ravet Road, Akurdi, Pune – 411044, Maharashtra
  • D. Vasanthakumar
     Western Regional Centre, Zoological Survey of India, Vidyanagar, Ravet Road, Akurdi, Pune – 411044, Maharashtra

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.26515/rzsi/v118/i3/2018/119501

Keywords:

Check-List, Tenebrionidae, West Bengal

Abstract

The updated Check-list contains the report of 290 species of 98 genera under 30 tribes of 06 sub families from West Bengal state. The Gonocephalum is the dominant genus from this state having 36 species followed by the genus Laena (25), Strongylium (21) and Uloma (11). Further, this compilation revealed, 70 species are endemic to West Bengal.

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2018-09-20

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Hegde, V. D., & Vasanthakumar, D. (2018). Updated Check-List of Darkling Beetles (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae) of West Bengal, India. Records of the Zoological Survey of India, 118(3), 281–286. https://doi.org/10.26515/rzsi/v118/i3/2018/119501

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Volume 118, Issue 3, 2018

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