Preliminary studies on Scarabaeoidea (Coleoptera) fauna of Razavi Khorasan province of Iran

Abstract

In this study fourty four species and five subspecies belonging to seven families of Scarabaeoidea (Coleoptera) have been determined in Razavi Khorasan province of Iran. Among those fifteen species and five subspecies are the first record for the fauna of Iran. Among the evaluated species, Oryctes nasicornis (Linnaeus, 1758), Tropinota hirta (Poda, 1761), Pentodon sulcifrons (Kuster, 1848), Copris hispanus (Linnaeus, 1764) and Oxythyrea cinctella (Schaum, 1841) were the common species in Iran