An illustrated checklist of dung beetles (Coleoptera: Scarabaeinae) from the Periyar Tiger Reserve, Kerala, India

Authors

  • Nithya Sathiandran Post Graduate and Research Department of Zoology, Loyola College, Chennai, Tamil Nadu 600034, India http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6152-7274
  • Sabu K. Thomas Post Graduate and Research Department of Zoology, St. Joseph’s College, Devagiri, Kozhikode, Kerala 673008, India http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8701-0484
  • Albin T. Flemming Post Graduate and Research Department of Zoology, Loyola College, Chennai, Tamil Nadu 600034, India http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9415-7679

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.11609/jott.2466.7.15.8250-8258

Keywords:

Forest dung beetles, Ochicanthon nitidus, Western Ghats, southern India.

Abstract

An illustrated checklist of 36 species of dung beetles (Coleoptera: Scarabaeinae) from the Periyar Tiger Reserve in the southern Western Ghats is presented.  Records of eight species endemic to the Western Ghats and a rare primitive old world dung beetle group, Ochicanthon nitidus (Paulian), from the forests of Periyar Tiger Reserve are provided.

 

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Published

26-12-2015

Issue

Vol. 7 No. 15 (2015)

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Short Communications

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