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Diversity and Relative Abundance of Pleurostict Scarabaeidae (Coleoptera) in Achanakmar-Amarkantak Biosphere Reserve, Central India
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
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| Author | Chandra, Kailash Gupta, Devanshu |
| Copyright Year | 2012 |
| Abstract | 2 Abstract: Diversity and relative abundance of Pleurostict Scarabaeidae (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae; Rutelinae, Melolonthinae, Dynastinae, Cetoniinae) were studied and analyzed in Achanakmar-Amarkantak Biosphere Reserve (AABR), Chhattisgarh. Scarab sampling during the years 2004 and 2008 yielded a total of 426 beetles belonging to 26 species distributed in 13 genera and four subfamilies. Between the two selected study areas viz. Atariya and Chhaparwa, the highest numbers of scarabs (n=346) were observed in Chhaparwa constituting 24 species under 12 genera and accounting 81.22% of the total number of beetles collected from the biosphere reserve. While from Atariya, 80 scarabs, comprising 13 species belonging to five genera and four subfamilies were collected. The subfamily Rutelinae with 16 species (71.12% of the total individuals) was dominating over other subfamilies. Anomala (9 species) was found the most dominant genus in the scarab population of the biosphere reserve, accounting 57.51 % of the total scarabs collected from the study area. |
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| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
