Fauna of long horned beetle (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae) from Tilari forest, Chandgad, Kolhapur district of Maharashtra, a region of Western Ghats

Abstract

The Indian longhorn beetles of family Cerambycidae are the very important and interesting group in the order Coleoptera, and they are serious pests in the forest area. The current work provides important information about diversity of long horned beetles Cerambycidae from Tilari forest with individually gave the color images based on the collection of coauthors. Based on the vegetation in the study area was selected for the collection of longicorn beetles. A total of 14 species of longhorn beetles distributed over 14 genera belonging to 3 subfamilies from the study area. The present work has been provided new localities for 14 species of Cerambycidae from Kolhapur district with all the species of Cerambycids were newly recorded in the Tilari forest.