| 19.First record of Bombardier Beetle Pheropsophus sobrinus (Dejean, 1826) (Insecta: Coleoptera: Carabidae: Brachininae) from Madhya Pradesh, India, with systematic account, distribution and other aspects |
| Akhlaq Husain and Ashwani Kumar Dubey |
| This communication deals with the first record of Pheropsophus sobrinus (Dejean, 1826), belonging to subfamily Brachininae under family Carabidae of order Coleoptera from Banda, Sagar district, Madhya Pradesh as well as the state, with its systematic account and distribution and other aspects, habitat, food & feeding, life-cycle and life-span, self-defense mechanism and biological pest controlling. Keywords: First record, Pheropsophus sobrinus, Madhya Pradesh. |