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


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1 Zoological Survey of India, M Block, New Alipore, Kolkata − 700053, West Bengal, India
2 Department of Zoology, University of Calcutta, 35, Ballygunge Circular Rd., Ballygunge, Kolkata − 700019, West Bengal, India
 

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

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

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.

Keywords


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

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.26515/rzsi%2Fv121%2Fi3%2F2021%2F153781