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


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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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Check-List, Tenebrionidae, West Bengal.
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Authors

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

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.

Keywords


Check-List, Tenebrionidae, West Bengal.

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.26515/rzsi%2Fv118%2Fi3%2F2018%2F119501