<p><strong>Checklist of Indian Lebiinae Bonelli, 1810 (Coleoptera: Carabidae)</strong></p>

Abstract

Distribution patterns and literature details of 263 Lebiinae species reported from India are provided. List includes 14 species missed out by Andrewes (1930a) and the 98 species described thereafter. Distribution patterns revealed among the 263 species, 104 species are exclusively Oriental species and 35 species are exclusively Palaearctic species. Among the 263 Indian speceis, 130 species are exclusively Indian species with reports only from the Indian subcontinent and one species with report only from Andaman &amp; Nicobar Islands. Of the 130 Indian species, 89 species are recorded from the Oriental, 27 species from the Palaearctic and 14 species recorded from both Oriental and Palaearctic regions in India. Among the 129 Indian subcontinent species, 45 species are endemics to the three global hotspots of the biodiversity in India with 31 species endemic to the Western Ghats and Sri Lanka hotspot of biodiversity; six species endemic to the Eastern Himalayas hotspot of biodiversity; eight species endemic to the Indo-Burma hotspot of biodiversity; four species recorded only from Chota Nagpur plateu and 27 species recorded only from Indian Himalayas. Four species (Microlestes parvati, Singilis indicus, S. squalidus and Lebia cardoni) recorded only from Chota Nagpur plateu and the 31 endemic species from the Western Gahts and Sri Lanka are of special interest for their Gondwana relationships. 133 species have wider geographic distribution pattern with 15 species having distribution in Oriental and Indian regions; 8 species having distribution in Palaeractic and Indian regions; 10 species having distribution in Oriental and Indo-Australian regions; 48 species with distribution in Oriental and Palaearctic regions; 29 species with distribution in Oriental, Indo-Australian and Palaearctic regions; 2 species with distribution in Oriental, Australian and Palaearctic regions; 6 species with distribution in Oriental, Palaearctic and Afrotropical regions; 9 species with distribution in Oriental, Indo-Australian, Australian and Palaearctic regions; and 6 species with random distributions in different regions. Distribution records indicate that the arrival/origin of 228 species- 137 species with wider geographic distribution outside India and the 91 species with Indian distribution and not endemics to the Western Ghats and the Chotanagpur Plateau- is likely to have occurred after the joining of Indian subcontinent with Asian continent and during the subsequent faunal exchange between the newly formed Indian subcontinent and the surrounding regions (Indo-Burma and Indo-China on the north east front; Mediterranean and Ethiopian regions on the north-western front; Central Asian elements on the northern front). These 228 species represent the younger Indian Lebiinae species compared to the 35 species representing the older/ancient species with Gondwana land origin. Key words: Carabidae, Lebiinae, Perigonini, Pentagonicini, Odacanthini, Cyclosomini, Lebiini, India

A New Ground Beetle Species of the Genus Cymindoidea Laporte, 1832 (Coleoptera: Carabidae: Lebiinae) from Central India

“…The exact localities for C. nigra reported from Coromandel, C. distigma from Bengal Province, and C. indica and C. aequa from Madras Province are unknown (Andrewes 1930; Raj and Thomas 2019), and are therefore not provided on the map (Fig. 1).…”

Checklist of Carabidae (Coleoptera) in the Chinnar Wildlife Sanctuary, a dry forest in the rain shadow region of the southern Western Ghats, India

“…Most ground-beetles in the southern WG are found to live under upper layers of the soil below stones, lower layers of litter and woody debris, and dry dung of mega herbivores, and most are crepuscular and nocturnal. Available data on the taxonomy of ground beetles is based on the species reported in the classical work of Andrewes (1930), which is placed under two subfamilies: Harpalinae and Carabinae, following the earlier classification of the family and in the recent checklists of subfamilies, Lebiinae, Pterostichinae, Panagaeinae, and Dryptinae (Shiju & Sabu 2019;Divya & Sabu 2020;Jithmon & Sabu 2021) do not cover the entire family. There is no comprehensive data to understand the Carabidae groups present in a natural ecosystem in the WG.…”