Luprops tristis (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 : 214-215

Luprops tristis (Fabricius, 1801)

1801. Lagria tristis Fabricius, Bibliopolii Academici Novi : 70.

1894. Lyprops piceus Fairmaire, Annales de la Societe Entomologique de Belgique. 38: 24.

Material examined: 02 Ex., Reg. No. I /COL/NERC-205, Meghalaya, East Khasi Hills district, Laitkor Forest , Shillong, 08.xii.1981, Coll R. Mathew .

Distribution: India: Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Kerala, Meghalaya (New Record), Sikkim and Tamil Nadu. Elsewhere: Sri Lanka (Sabu, et al. 2007).

Luprops rugosissimus Kaszab, 1980 1980. Luprops rugosissimus Kaszab, Actazool. Acad. Sci. Hungaricae ,

XXVI (I):195.

Material examined: 01 Ex., Reg. No. I /COL/NERC-106, Meghalaya, Jaintia Hills, 05.xii.1975, Coll S. K. Chanda; 01 Ex., Reg. No I /COL/ NERC 107 , Meghalaya, Jaintia Hills district, Garampani Forest, 16.xii.1975, Coll S.K. Chanda; 04 Ex., Reg. No. I /COL/ NERC 154 , Meghalaya, Jaintia Hills, 07.xii.1973, Coll S.K. Chanda; 01 Ex., Reg. No. I /COL/ NERC 155 , Meghalaya, Jaintia Hills district , Garampani Forest , 26.i.1975, Coll A.K.Ghosh .

Distribution: India: Chattisgarh, Manipur, Meghalaya (New Record), Pondicherry and Uttar Pradesh. Elsewhere: Sri Lanka (Sabu, et al. 2007). Subfamily TENEBRIONINAE LATREILLE, 1802 Tribe Ulomini Blanchard, 1845 Uloma polita (Wiedemann, 1821) 1821. Uloma polita Wiedemann, Germ. Mag. IV , p. 149. 1996. Uloma polita Schawaller, Acta Zoologica Acad.Sci.Hungaricae ,

XXXXII: 113-114.

Material examined: 01 ex, Reg. No. I /COL/NERC- 87, Meghalaya, Garo Hills district , 23.xi.1973, Coll S. Biswas .

Distribution: India: Assam, Meghalaya (New Record), Sikkim, Uttarakhand, Uttar

Pradesh and West Bengal Elsewhere: Bhutan, Madagascar, Mauritius, Myanmar, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Taiwan, Thailand and Vietnam ( Schawaller, 1996).

Tribe Opatrini Brulle, 1832 Gonocephalum abnormale Kaszab, 1952 1952. Gonocephalum abnormale Kaszab, Ent. Arb. Mus. Georg Frey :

634.

Material examined: 18 ex., Reg. No. I /COL/NERC-84, Meghalaya, Jaintia Hills district Garampani forest ,

16.xii.1975, Coll S.K. Chanda; 28 ex, Reg. No. I /COL/ NERC- 174, Meghalaya, South Garo Hills district , Siju Wildlife Sanctuary, Coll Y.P. Sinha .

Distribution: India: Chhattisgarh, Meghalaya (New Record) and Tamil Nadu. Elsewhere: Amherst Distr., Kawkareih and Myanmar (Iwan, et al., 2010).