Sap Beetles of Northeast India: Systematics, Bionomics and Ecological Services

Description:

This book deals with the Nitidulidae fauna of Northeast India, a biodiversity hotspot of the world, giving possible details of all available species, and extensive field exploration data of different habits and habitats. It embodies the systematic position of the family in the natural classification of beetles, intra-familial classification, characterisation of taxa from supra-generic to species levels, keys, illustrations, descriptions, habitat data, localities, distribution maps, synonymies, analyses of relationships amongst taxa, breeding behaviour and life history, seasonality and abundance, etc.

The significance of taxonomic monographs on a coleopteran family, in a single volume, can serve as a resource book to a wide range of people, such as students of Coleoptera (especially of the family Nitidulidae) of any region of the world, or professional entomologists and active researchers of beetles. The treatment of species and genera is also of interest to taxonomic workers of any other beetle family.