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The Journal of Threatened Taxa (JoTT) is dedicated to building evidence for conservaton globally by publishing peer-reviewed artcles OPEN ACCESS online every month at a reasonably rapid rate at www.threatenedtaxa.org. All artcles published in JoTT are registered under Creatve Commons Atributon 4.0 Internatonal License unless otherwise mentoned. JoTT allows unrestricted use, reproducton, and distributon of artcles in any medium by providing adequate credit to the author(s) and the source of publicaton. Journal of Threatened Taxa Building evidence for conservaton globally www.threatenedtaxa.org ISSN 0974-7907 (Online) | ISSN 0974-7893 (Print) Communication Checklists of subfamilies Dryptinae and Panagaeinae (Insecta: Coleoptera: Carabidae) from the Indian subcontinent V.A. Jithmon & Thomas K. Sabu 26 May 2021 | Vol. 13 | No. 6 | Pages: 18559–18577 DOI: 10.11609/jot.6203.13.6.18559-18577 For Focus, Scope, Aims, and Policies, visit htps://threatenedtaxa.org/index.php/JoTT/aims_scope For Artcle Submission Guidelines, visit htps://threatenedtaxa.org/index.php/JoTT/about/submissions For Policies against Scientfc Misconduct, visit htps://threatenedtaxa.org/index.php/JoTT/policies_various For reprints, contact <[email protected]> The opinions expressed by the authors do not refect the views of the Journal of Threatened Taxa, Wildlife Informaton Liaison Development Society, Zoo Outreach Organizaton, or any of the partners. The journal, the publisher, the host, and the part- Publisher & Host ners are not responsible for the accuracy of the politcal boundaries shown in the maps by the authors. Member Threatened Taxa Journal of Threatened Taxa | www.threatenedtaxa.org | 26 May 2021 | 13(6): 18559–18577 ISSN 0974-7907 (Online) | ISSN 0974-7893 (Print) OPEN ACCESS htps://doi.org/10.11609/jot.6203.13.6.18559-18577 #6203 | Received 21 May 2020 | Final received 10 May 2021 | Finally accepted 15 May 2021 COMMUNICATION Checklists of subfamilies Dryptnae and Panagaeinae (Insecta: Coleoptera: Carabidae) from the Indian subcontnent V.A. Jithmon 1 & Thomas K. Sabu 2 1, 2 Entomology Research Unit, Post Graduate & Research Department of Zoology, St. Joseph’s College, Devagiri, Kozhikode, Kerala 673008, India. 1 [email protected], 2 [email protected] (corresponding author) Abstract: Distributon paterns and literature details of 45 Dryptnae and 33 Panagaeinae species reported from the Indian subcontnent are provided. Out of the 45 Dryptnae species, six species are endemic to the Western Ghats & Sri Lanka hotspot of biodiversity, two species are endemic to the Indo-Burma hotspot of biodiversity and two species are endemic to the Himalaya hotspot of biodiversity. Distributon paterns revealed that 24 Dryptnae species are endemic to the Indian subcontnent with 22 species recorded from the Oriental (ORR) region and two from the Palearctc (PAR) region. Out of the 33 Panagaeinae species, 20 species are endemic to the Indian subcontnent with 17 of these species distributed in the Oriental region; two in the Palearctc region and one species in both Oriental and Palearctc regions. Seven species are endemic to the Western Ghats & Sri Lanka hotspot of biodiveristy and two endemic to the Himalaya hotspot of biodiversity. Six Panagaeinae species and seven Dryptnae species recorded only from the Western Ghats and Sri Lanka hotspot of biodiversity are likely to be representatves of the Gondwana remnants. Genus Ardistomopsis with fve species is endemic to the Indian subcontnent. Keywords: Dryptni, Galeritni, ground beetle, Panagaeini, Peliciini, Zuphini. Editor: Hasko Friedrich Nesemann, Im Obergarten, Germany. Date of publicaton: 26 May 2021 (online & print) Citaton: Jithmon, V.A. & T.K. Sabu (2021). Checklists of subfamilies Dryptnae and Panagaeinae (Insecta: Coleoptera: Carabidae) from the Indian subcontnent. Journal of Threatened Taxa 13(6): 18559–18577. htps://doi.org/10.11609/jot.6203.13.6.18559-18577 Copyright: © Jithmon & Sabu 2021. Creatve Commons Atributon 4.0 Internatonal License. JoTT allows unrestricted use, reproducton, and distributon of this artcle in any medium by providing adequate credit to the author(s) and the source of publicaton. Funding: Department of Science and Technology (DST SERB), Government of India. Competng interests: The authors declare no competng interests. Author details: V.A. Jithmon completed PhD in Zoology (Entomology) under the guidance of Dr. Sabu K. Thomas from St. Joseph’s College, afliated to the University of Calicut. Area of specialisaton is taxonomy of Carabidae. Worked as a project fellow in DST-SERB major Project ttled “Taxonomy and Barcoding of south Indian Carabidae”. Discovered two new Carabidae species. Sabu K Thomas, Principal, St. Joseph’s College (Autonomous) and is Professor of Zoology. Ecology and taxonomy of Dung beetles and Carabidae, home invading nuisance pest, Luprops trists are areas of interest. Currently engaged with updatng the taxonomy of Indian Carabidae by preparaton of revised checklists and taxonomic keys. Discovered 18 new Carabidae species and 11 dung beetle species. Author contributon: SKT and Jithmon VAJ reviewed the earlier works and discussed the distributon paterns. VAJ conducted the feld studies, preparatons of the plates and specimens. Acknowledgements: Financial assistance from Department of Science and Technology (DST SERB), Government of India is gratefully acknowledged. We thank and acknowledge Azadeh Taghavian (Muséum Natonal d’Historie Naturelle, Paris, France); Jiri Hajek (Natonal Museum, Prague, Czech Republic), Bernd Jeager (Natural History Museum Berlin, Germany); Harald Schillhammer (Natural History Museum, Vienna, Austria) for facilitatng the analysis of specimens. We are grateful to Kerala Forest and Wild Life Department for specimen collecton permissions and Akhil S. V. (St. Joseph’s College, Devagiri, Kozhikode) for logistcal support. 18559 J TT Checklists of subfamilies Dryptnae and Panagaeinae Jithmon & Sabu INTRODUCTION 13 species with no locality details in the descriptons are marked as from ‘India’, species from Oriental (ORR) and Globally, 560 species from 30 genera have been Palaeractc (PAR) localites of Indian subcontnent have described from the subfamily Dryptnae (Lorenz 2005) been categorised as ORR - India/ PAR - India. and 387 species in 29 genera are described from Specimens were collected from forests and the subfamily Panagaeinae (Hackel & Farkac 2012). agricultural lands in the south Indian states, Kerala and Dryptnae (Dryptini Bonelli, 1810, Zuphiini Bonelli, Tamil Nadu using light traps and by actve collectng. 1810 & Galeritini Leconte, 1853) and Panagaeinae Specimens were identfed with the aid of keys available (Peliciini Chaudoir, 1880 & Panagaeini Bonelli, 1810) in Liang and Kavanaugh (2004, 2007), Hackel & are two lesser known Carabidae subfamilies from the Kirschenhofer (2014a,b), Fedorenko (2016), Jithmon & Indian subcontnent with 45 species and 33 species, Sabu (2018) and with aid of species descriptons available respecitvely. Andrewes (1930) recorded 15 Dryptnae in various publicatons. Verifcatons were done by species and 11 Pangaeinae species from Indian comparing with the types in: MNHN—Muséum Natonal subcontnent. Taxonomic studies on these groups from d’Histoire Naturelle, Paris, France; ZMUC—University Indian subcontnent have been infrequent since 1930 of Copenhagen Zoological Museum, Denmark; ZMHB— (Jedlicka 1935; Andrewes 1936; Landin 1955; Jedlicka Museum für Naturkunde, Humboldt Universität, Berlin, 1956; Darlington 1968; Mateu 1981; Straneo & Ball Germany; MPC—Natonal Museum of Natural History, 1989; Baehr 1990; Xie & Yu 1991; Mateu 1992; Baehr Prague, Czech Republic; and NHMW—Naturhistoriches 1998; Kirschenofer 2000; Liang & Kavanaugh 2007; Museum, Wien, Austria. Images were taken using Leica Kirschenhofer 2011; Hackel & Kirschenhofer 2014; M205C Stereo zoom microscope fted with Leica MC Jithmon & Sabu 2018). 170 HD digital camera. Measurements are taken with World Catalogue of Carabidae (Lorenz 2005) provided Leica LAS V4.5 sofware and provided in millimetres. up to date nomenclatural informaton on Dryptnae and Verifed specimens were added to the insect collectons Panagaeinae and the Catalogue of Palearctc Coleoptera of Zoological Survey of India, Kozhikode staton. (Lobl & Lobl 2017) provided countrywise details and Separaton of the Indian species from the World related bibliographic references of Palearctc region. catalogue of Carabidae (Lorenz 2005) was done with World Checklist of Panagaeinae (Hackel & Farkac 2012) the aid of Andrewes (1930), Hackel & Farkac (2012), provided country wise data including India for the and Löbl & Löbl (2017) and by verifying the distributon subfamily Panagaeinae but no species specifc regional patern of each species in the cited literature. One distributon data. In general, lack of species specifc species, Dischissus alatcollis Bates 1892 (Panagaeinae), regional distributon data and reference details hinders known only from the Andamans is excluded from the list taxonomic analysis of the Dryptnae and Panagaeinae of species in Indian subcontnent. fauna of the Indian subcontnent. In this paper, we provide an up to date checklist of both subfamilies, with Abbreviatons and markings Used distributon and reference details of all species recorded id. “Idem” (the same; as just mentoned) in the Indian subcontnent (Indian mainland, Sri Lanka, ORR Oriental Region and Bangladesh). PAR Palaearctc Region IAR Indo-Australian Region * Species assessed by the authors. MATERIALS AND METHODS # Species with
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