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Diversity of species of the family Scarabaeidae (Coleoptera) in Serbia

Gavrilović B. (Institut za šumarstvo, Beograd)
Ćurčić S.B. (Biološki fakultet, Institut za zoologiju, Beograd)

On the basis of literature data and personally collected entomological material, we made a faunistic and zoogeographical analysis of the family Scarabaeidae in Serbia. A total of 178 species, 83 genera, 15 tribes, and 7 subfamilies of the family Scarabaeidae are recorded from Serbia. The majority of findings are from the territory of northern Serbia, while western Serbia is the least explored region. Most of the species have a wide distribution range; therefore on the basis of the zoogeographical classification, 65.17% of the species belong to some of the Holarctic chorotypes, 34.27% of the species are included in some of the European chorotypes, while 0.56% are subcosmopolitan. .

Keywords: Scarabaeidae, Coleoptera, diversity, distribution, Serbia