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The study offers a wide range of beetles with different families in respect of new records and little known species from Pakistan confined in 2024. Eight families encompass 24 species, out of which nine species and five subspecies are first time reported from Pakistan. The families and species as new records are as follows: Bothrideridae (Dastaracus porosus Walker); Buprestidae (Lampetis (Spinthoptera) affinis); Curculionidae (Pycnodactylopsis furmosa); Histeridae (Saprinus coerulescence coerulescence); Scarabaeidae (Adoretus ladakanus nuristanicus; Podalgus cuniculus indicus; Protaetia afghana); and Tenebrionidae (Blaps inflexa; B. felix; B. perlonga; B. parvicollis parvicollis; Cyphogenia aurita aurita; Strongylium macrops Wied; Uloma polita Widemann, 1821). The distribution of each species and illustration of habitus of new records also presented.
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