The Ladybird Beetles (Coleoptera: Coccinellidae) of Arunachal Pradesh, East Himalaya, Indiawith new combinations and new country records

This dataset contains the digitized treatments in Plazi based on the original journal article Das, Priyanka, Chandra, Kailash, Introduction, Devanshu Gupta (2020): The Ladybird Beetles (Coleoptera: Coccinellidae) of Arunachal Pradesh, East Himalaya, Indiawith new combinations and new country records. Bonn zoological Bulletin 69 (1): 27-44, DOI: 10.20363/BZB-2020.69.1.027, URL: dx.doi.org/10.20363/bzb-2020.69.1.027 Abstract.

The present communication on ladybird beetles (Coccinellidae) of Arunachal Pradesh (AP), India, a part of Eastern Himalayan biodiversity hotspot, reports a total of 44 species belonging to 22 genera and 6 tribes. Thirty-eight species were examined and illustrated, including three new species records from India: Illeis shensiensis Timberlake, 1943, Afissa rana (Kapur, 1958), and Henosepilachna vigintioctomaculata (Motschulsky, 1857) (first confirmed record from India), and 26 species as new to Arunachal Pradesh.