Biodiversity of beetles (Coleoptera) from district Mirpurkhas and its Adjoing areas Sindh, Pakistan

Abstract

Present study was carried out during the year 2018. Total over all 409 beetles were collected from the different localities of District Mirpurkhas namely Digri, Hussain Bux Mari, Judo, Kot Ghulam Muhammad, Mirpurkhas, Shujabad and Sindhri. The material were sorted out into 5 families, 09 genera and 10 species namely Anthia sexguttata sexguttata (Febricuis, 1775), Carabus hortansis (Linnaeus, 1758), Calsoma chlorostictum (Dejean, 1831), Aneflus calvatus (Horn, 1885), Melelontha hippocastani (Febricus, 1801), Melelontha pictoralis (Magerls, 1812), Euetheola humilis (Burmeister, 1847), Geotrupes stercorarius (Linnaeaus, 1758), Eletica testacea (Oliver, 1789), Pimelia capito (Krynick, 1832). Above all species are first time recorded from given study area.