Updation and Digitization of Buprestids (Coleoptera: Buprestidae) Type Collection of National forest Insect Collection (NFIC), FRI, Dehradun (INDIA)

Abstract

Buprestid type collection has been studied and updated at National Forest Insect Collection (NFIC), Forest Research Institute (FRI), Dehradun, India. Buprestids in NFIC are represented by 11 subfamilies, 14 tribes, 15 genera having 54 holotypes 22 paratypes of 71 species. In the present contribution 71 insect specimens belonging to family Buprestidae their subfamilies, tribes with male and female of Holotypes and Paratypes are digitized alongwith coloured photograph of each specimen taken with automontage3-D imaging system for long term use.