Faunistics of tiger beetles (Coleoptera: Cicindelidae) from Pakistan
1National Insect Museum, National Agricultural Research Centre, Islamabad-Pakistan
2Dresdener Ring 11, D-38444 Wolfsburg, Germany
Abstract
The present biogeographic distribution of tiger beetle fauna is an attempt to register all modern taxa from Pakistan. It includes 55 taxa under 14 genera and 11 subgenera. Three species, Cylindera (Eriodera) albopunctata (Chaudoir1852), Cicindela viridilabris (Chaudoir 1852) and Neocollyris (Neocollyris) redtenbacheri (Horn 1894) are recorded from Pakistan for the first time.
Keywords: distribution, biogeography, Cylindera (Eriodera) albopunctata, Cicindela viridilabris, Neocollyris (Neocollyris) redtenbacheri
Correspondence: a a_rafiam@yahoo.com, b juergen.wiesner@wolfsburg.de c mamatin@gmail.com, d* saiyedahmed@yahoo.com, e amirsultan_2000@yahoo.com, f falak05@yahoo.com
Received: 22 August 2009 | Accepted: 22 December 2009 | Published: 24 July 2010
Copyright: This is an open access paper. We use the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 license that permits unrestricted use, provided that the paper is properly attributed.
ISSN: 1536-2442 | Volume 10, Number 116
Rafi MA, Jürgen W, Matin MA, Zia A, Sultan A, Naz F. 2010. Faunistics of tiger beetles (Coleoptera: Cicindelidae) from Pakistan. Journal of Insect Science 10:116, available online: insectscience.org/10.116