Records of the Zoological Survey of India - A Journal of Indian Zoology

V. D. Hegde ¹, B. Lal ¹

Affiliations
1 Zoological Survey of India, M-Block, New Alipore, Kolkata-700053, IN

Abstract

The family Tenebrionidae is the fifth largest family of the order Coleoptera All Gonocephalum species are characteristic elements of open land in different altitudes, but lacking in closed mature forests. They can be found quite often in cultivated land along roads, in bushlands. Gonocephalum species are mostly collected under stones but also under bark of rotten trunks or under cattle excrements where they usually aggregate during daytime (Schawaller, 1997). Except (Hegde, 2012), there is no report on the Tenebrionidae fauna of Karnataka state. The collection of Gonocephalum strangulatum (Fairmaire, 1888) in the arecanut plantation, under the stone from Kadatoka village (North Kanara), Karnataka state constitutes the new record of that species not only from Karnataka state, but also from India.

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B. Lal ¹, V. D. Hegde ¹, K. Chandra ¹

Affiliations
1 Zoological Survey of India, M-Block, New Alipore, Kolkata 700 053, IN

Abstract

Chhattisgarh state is located in the central part of India surrounded by 05 states, viz; Jharkhand, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Odisha and Andhra Pradesh and occupying an area of about 1,35,000 sq. k. m. A perusal of literature reveals that 103 species of different groups of insects are reported from Chhattisgarh (Ramakrishna et al., 2006). Recent reference (Srivastava, 2014) on Dermaptera of Achanakmar Amarkantak Biosphere Reserve of Chhattisgarh state reveals the record of 05 species only. Hence, an attempt has been made to explore the Dermaptera fauna of this state by studying the collections made during the recent surveys conducted by different survey parties of the Zoological Survey of India.

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V. D. Hegde ¹, B. Lal ¹

Affiliations
1 Zoological Survey of India, M-Block, New Alipore, Kolkata-700 053, IN

Abstract

The Lagriine genus Bothynogria was named by Borchmann (1915) and 06 species has been described till date. A perusal of literature reveals that three species of Bothynogria namely himalayana Borchmann, 1936, bicolor (Kollar and Redtenbacher, 1848) and meghalayana (Merkl, 1990) were reported from Nilgiri Hills, Tamil Nadu; Sikkim and West Bengal (DarjeelingLebong and Lopchu) and Meghalaya respectively. The occurrence of the 4^th species Bothynogria ruficollis from Uttarakhand state increases the number of Lagriine species in India and extends its distribution from eastwards and southwards to western Himalayan ecosystem.

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V. D. Hegde ¹, B. Lal ¹

Affiliations
1 Zoological Survey of India, M-Block, New Alipore, Kolkata 700 053, IN

Abstract

This species was so far recorded from montane and sub montane regions in India [Himachal Pradesh, West Bengal (Darjeeling district), Sikkim, Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Meghalaya and Manipur], Nepal and Bhutan (Srivastava, 1993, 2003).

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B. Lal ¹, V. D. Hegde ¹

Affiliations
1 Zoological Survey of India, M-Block, New Alipore, Kolkata 700 053, IN

Abstract

The present study is based on Dermaptera collected by various survey parties of Zoological Survey of India, Kolkata during the period from 1922 to 1961 and deposited in the National Zoological Collection, Zoological survey of India, Kolkata. A total of 17 species belonging to 13 genera under 10 subfamilies of 06 families and 03 superfamilies were identified.

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B. Lal ¹, V. D. Hegde ¹

Affiliations
1 Zoological Survey of India, M-Block, New Alipore, Kolkata 700 053, IN

Abstract

The present paper is based on the study of a new species of Euborellia Burr, 1909 collected from Nainital district of Uttarakhand state (Western Himalayan Ecosystem). Gangola(1968) has described two new species viz;Euborellia kumaonensis collected from Nainital district and Euborellia askotensis from Pithoragarh district of Uttarakhand but on the basis of the description and figures provided in his paper, the fate of the systematic position of these species is uncertain.

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