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

Srimoyee Basu ¹, G. Thirumalai ¹, K. A. Subramanian ¹, Goutam Kumar Saha ²

Affiliations
1 Zoological Survey of India, M-Block, New Alipore, Kolkata-700053, IN
2 Department of Zoology, University of Calcutta, 35 Ballygunge Circular Road, Kolkata-700019, IN

Abstract

The aquatic and semi-aquatic Heteroptera under the Infraorder Nepomorpha and Gerromorpha are distributed in almost all kinds of ecological niches with diverse climatic conditions, including both marine and freshwater habitats. They are the important components of freshwater ecosystem as they play a major role in the food web of this particular ecosystem. Globally, among the 17 major families of aquatic Heteroptera, 16 families comprising of 79 genera and 292 species are represented in India.

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