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New country records of darkling beetles (Tenebrionidae: Coleoptera) from India
Authors
V D Hegde, P Burathoki, S Yadav
Abstract
Tenebrionidae are the versatile group of the
order Coleoptera. While studying the darkling beetles from the earlier
collections deposited in the North Eastern Regional Centre, Shillong,
occurrence of Cteniopinus milkyskai Novak 2019 from Arunachal Pradesh and
Cerogria gozmanyi Merkl, 2007 and Catapiestus clavipes Lang and
Ren, 2009 from Meghalaya state constitutes the new records from India. The
genitalia of Cerogria gozmanyi was dissected out and image was also
given. Cteniopinus milkyskai, Cerogria gozmanyi and Catapiestus
clavipes were confirmed by Novak (2019), Merkl (2007) and Lang and
Ren (2009) respectively. Diagnostic characters, distribution and the images of
each species were provided.
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Pages:54-57
How to cite this article:
V D Hegde, P Burathoki, S Yadav "New country records of darkling beetles (Tenebrionidae: Coleoptera) from India". International Journal of Entomology Research, Vol 8, Issue 4, 2023, Pages 54-57
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