Abbas, Muhammad, Khaliq, Sobia, Masroor, Rafaqat, Hassan, Muhammad Asghar (2024). A checklist of the dung beetles (Coleoptera, Scarabaeidae, Scarabaeinae) deposited at Pakistan Museum of Natural History. , 10(2), 415-430. doi: 10.61186/jibs.10.2.415
Muhammad Abbas; Sobia Khaliq; Rafaqat Masroor; Muhammad Asghar Hassan. "A checklist of the dung beetles (Coleoptera, Scarabaeidae, Scarabaeinae) deposited at Pakistan Museum of Natural History". , 10, 2, 2024, 415-430. doi: 10.61186/jibs.10.2.415
Abbas, Muhammad, Khaliq, Sobia, Masroor, Rafaqat, Hassan, Muhammad Asghar (2024). 'A checklist of the dung beetles (Coleoptera, Scarabaeidae, Scarabaeinae) deposited at Pakistan Museum of Natural History', , 10(2), pp. 415-430. doi: 10.61186/jibs.10.2.415
Abbas, Muhammad, Khaliq, Sobia, Masroor, Rafaqat, Hassan, Muhammad Asghar A checklist of the dung beetles (Coleoptera, Scarabaeidae, Scarabaeinae) deposited at Pakistan Museum of Natural History. , 2024; 10(2): 415-430. doi: 10.61186/jibs.10.2.415

A checklist of the dung beetles (Coleoptera, Scarabaeidae, Scarabaeinae) deposited at Pakistan Museum of Natural History

Journal of Insect Biodiversity and Systematics
Article 15, Volume 10, Issue 2, 2024, Pages 415-430    PDF (2.61 M)
Document Type: Research Article
DOI: 10.61186/jibs.10.2.415
Authors
Muhammad Abbas1; Sobia Khaliq2; Rafaqat Masroor1; Muhammad Asghar Hassan* 3
1Zoological Sciences Division, Pakistan Museum of Natural History, Garden Avenue, Islamabad-44000, Pakistan
2Zoological Sciences Division, Pakistan Museum of Natural History, Garden Avenue, Islamabad-44000, Pakistan [1]; Department of Entomology, Pir Mehr Ali Shah Arid Agriculture University, Rawalpindi, Pakistan
3Institute of Entomology, The Provincial Special Key Laboratory for Development and Utilization of Insect Resources, Guizhou University, Guiyang 550025, China
Abstract
The Pakistan Museum of Natural History (PMNH) holds a large number and historically valuable specimens of insects that were collected from various parts of the country before and after the independence of the Indo-Pak subcontinent (1917–2024). In this study, we examined 605 specimens of dung beetles of subfamily Scarabaeinae Latreille, 1802, and identified 26 species belonging to 12 genera and seven tribes. The tribes consist of Coprini Kolbe, 1805 (nine species), Onthophagini Lacordaire, 1856 (six species), Onitini Laporte, 1840 (six species), Gymnopleurini Lacordaire, 1856 (two species), Oniticellini d´Orbigny, 1916 (one species), Scarabaeini Latreille, 1802 (one species), and Sisyphini Mulsant, 1842 (one species). This study adds one species to the scarabid fauna of Pakistan, Onthophagus (Palaeonthophagus) conspersus Reitter, 1893.
Keywords
Coprini; Onthophagini; Ontini; Gymnopleurini; South Asia
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