Incidence of darkling beetles (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae) from lower Sindh Tando Jam Hyderabad

Abstract

Family Tenebrionidae has great economic importance as it contains insect pest that are cosmopolitan in nature and most imperatively are associated with stored products. Darkling beetles are a large group of insects that belong to the family Tenebrionidae. Therefore, this study was under observation. During this survey a total of 120 specimens of Tenebrionidae were collected and sorted out into 06 species Viz: Tribolium castaneum (Herbst, 1797), Tribolium confusum (Jaquelin du Val, 1863), Trachyderma hispida (Forskal, 1775), Eleodes obscures (Say, 1824), Gonocephalum misellum, Alphitobius diaperinus. (Panzer, 1797). However, it was noticed that more dominate genera were Tribolium (Herbst, 1797) and Alphitobius (Panzer, 1797) in this region. It was a first ever effort carried out from this region.