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Indian Journal of Pure & Applied Biosciences (IJPAB)
Year : 2015 , Volume 3, Issue 6
Page No. : 104-108
Article doi: : http://dx.doi.org/10.18782/2320-7051.2141

New Faunistics Records of Dermestidae (Coleoptera) from Kargil, India

Mohd Feroz^1*, J.S. Tara², Jiri Háva³ and Mohammad Azam⁴

1Department of Zoology, Govt. Degree College Sopore, Kashmir- 193201. J&K, India.
²Department of Zoology, University of Jammu, Jammu -180006, J&K, India.
³Department of Forest Protection and Entomology, Faculty of Forestry and Wood Sciences, Czech University of Life Sciences Kamýcká 1176, CZ-165 21, Prague 6 - Suchdol, Czech Republic.
⁴Department of Zoology, Govt. Degree College, Poonch-185 101, J & K, India.
^*Corresponding Author E-mail: feroz.ento@gmail.com

ABSTRACT

The present study determined new faunastic records of Family dermestidae from Kargil. Kargil is
one of the two districts of ladakh region known as Cold desert of the country (India) and falls in the
transhimalayan mountain system. A total of 03species belonging to 03 subfamilies viz., Dermestinae,
Attageninae and Megatominae were recorded and described for the first time from the area under
study. Notes on the bionomy of all the three species is presented. Two species Anthrenus indicus and
Attagenus gobicola is new record for the area.
Key words: Coleoptera, New record, High Altitude, Kargil, dermestidae, Cold desert, diversity.

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Cite this article:

Feroz, M., Tara, J.S., Háva, J. and Azam, M., New Faunistics Records of Dermestidae (Coleoptera) from Kargil, India, Int. J. Pure App. Biosci. 3 (6): 104-108 (2015). doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.18782/2320-7051.2141

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