Checklist of Scarab Beetles (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae) from Tripura, India

Authors

  • Joyjit Ghosh
     Zoological Survey of India, M Block, New Alipore, Kolkata − 700053, West Bengal
  • Goutam Kumar Saha
     Department of Zoology, University of Calcutta, 35, Ballygunge Circular Rd., Ballygunge, Kolkata − 700019, West Bengal
  • Devanshu Gupta
     Zoological Survey of India, M Block, New Alipore, Kolkata − 700053, West Bengal
  • Kailash Chandra
     Zoological Survey of India, M Block, New Alipore, Kolkata − 700053, West Bengal

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.26515/rzsi/v121/i3/2021/153781

Keywords:

Checklist, Dung Beetles, New Records, North East Biogeographic Zone, Phytophagous

Abstract

Altogether, 52 species belonging to 22 genera, 13 tribes and 5 subfamilies of family Scarabaeidae are reported from the state of Tripura, in the North-east biogeographic zone of India. Digitonthophagus bonasus (Fabricius, 1775), Onthophagus (Colobonthophagus) tragus (Fabricius, 1792), O. orientalis Harold, 1868, Tibiodrepanus setosus Wiedemann, 1823, [Scarabaeinae], Adoretus lasiopygus Burmeister, 1855, Anomala grandis (Hope, 1840), A. rugosa Arrow, 1899, Mimela inscripta (Nonfried, 1892) [Rutelinae], and Dicheros (Coryphocera) bimacula Wiedemann, 1823 [Cetoniinae] are new records to the state of Tripura.

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2021-09-30

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Ghosh, J., Kumar Saha, G., Gupta, D., & Chandra, K. (2021). Checklist of Scarab Beetles (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae) from Tripura, India. Records of the Zoological Survey of India, 121(3), 383–391. https://doi.org/10.26515/rzsi/v121/i3/2021/153781

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