Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) Entomology · 1963 · 19 citations · 2 references
Life SciencesEntomologyZoologyInsect EcologyInsect SystematicsInsect TaxonomyFaunal InventoryInsect BiogeographyMountain EcologyEndemic Insect SpeciesEndemic Species DistributionMountain Animal EcologyMountain Endemism
The Coccinellidae of the Third Mount Everest Expedition, 1924, were collected from Sikkim and Darjeeling as well as from the higher and less explored parts of the Himalaya in Tibet. The collection includes fifty-one species, of which four have already been described as new by the writer, and sixteen more are described here for the first time. The collection comprises a mixture of palaearctic, oriental and endemic species, of which the endemic element represents about two-thirds of the total. The genera, however, are, with one exception, either palaearctic or oriental.
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