Open AccessAdditions to the knowledge of darkling beetles (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae) from the Indo-Burma Biodiversity Hotspot, Meghalaya, India
Author(s) -
V. D. Hegde
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
journal of threatened taxa
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.264
H-Index - 8
eISSN - 0974-7907
pISSN - 0974-7893
DOI - 10.11609/jott.5046.11.15.15074-15078
Subject(s) - biodiversity hotspot , biodiversity , geography , endemism , ecology , biology , zoology
The paper contains the report of 37 species from Meghalaya under 20 genera belonging to nine tribes of four sub families and taxonomic details, distribution record of the species. Among the reported species, four species, viz: Gonocephalum depressum (Fabricius, 1801), Ceropria induta induta Wiedemann, 1819, Derispiola assamensis Kaszab, 1946, and Foochounus assamicus Kaszab, 1965 are first report and six species are local endemics to the state of Meghalaya.