Toxicum quadricorne (Fabricius, 1801)

Hegde, V. D., Yadav, Sarita & Burathoki, Prerna, 2022, New state records of darkling beetles (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae) from Meghalaya, India, Records of the Zoological Survey of India 122 (2), pp. 213-217 : 216

Toxicum quadricorne (Fabricius, 1801)

1801. Trogosita quadricornis Fabricius, Kiliae : 153. (described from Sumatra).

1970. Toxicum quadricorne, Kaszab, Annls hist. nat. Mus. Natn. Hung. 62:259.

Material examined: 01 ex., Reg. No. I /COL/NERC- 56, Meghalaya, Ri-Bhoi district, Umroi, Nongrah, 04.ix.2019, Coll V. D. Hegde; 01 ex., Reg. No. I /COL/NERC- 110, Meghalaya, East Garo Hills district, Songsak Reserve forest , 16.iv.1973, Coll S. Biswas; 04 ex., Reg. No. I /COL/ NERC- 111, Meghalaya, Garo hills, 16.xi.1973, Coll S. Biswas .

Distribution: India: Andaman islands and Meghalaya (New Record). Elsewhere: Indochina, Indomalayan realm, Marshall Islands, Melanesia, New Guinea, Solomon Islands and Vanuatu ( Merkl, 1989).

Subfamily STENOCHIINAE Kirby, 1837

Tribe Cnodalonini Oken, 1843

Promethis kempi kempi (Gravely, 1915) comb. n.

1915. Setenis kempi Gravely : Rec. Ind. Mus. 2:526, p.43, fig 6 (Locus typicus: Assam).

1980. Setenis kempi Kaszab , Annlshist-nat. Mus. Natn. Hung.,

72:177.

Material examined: 04 ex., Reg. No. I /COL/NERC-125, Meghalaya, East Garo Hills district, Songsak Reserve forest , 16.iv.1973, Coll S. Biswas .

Distribution: India: Arunachal Pradesh, Assam and Meghalaya (New Record). Elsewhere: China and Vietnam ( Kaszab, 1988).