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

P. Girish Kumar ¹, P. C. Mazumdar ¹, Phong Huy Pham ²

Affiliations
1 Zoological Survey of India, M-Block, New Alipore, Kolkata, West Bengal-700053, IN
2 Institute of Ecology and Biological Resources, Vietnam Academy of Science and Technology, 18 Hoang Quoc Viet Road, Hanoi, VN

Abstract

The members of the genus Vespa of the subfamily Vespinae of the family Vespidae are commonly known as hornet wasps. Hornet wasps are predominantly found in the Oriental and Palaearctic Regions of the world. There are 23 valid species are reported worldwide of which 16 species from the Indian subcontinent and 15 species from India (Carpenter & Kojima, 1997). Economically, hornet wasps can be both beneficial and harmful. They are beneficial as predators of agricultural, forest and hygienic pests. The larvae and pupae of them are utilized as food in some parts of the world. They are harmful as they sting human beings and domesticated animals, they are the natural enemies of honey bees and they are damaging fruits by feeding just prior to harvest.

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P. Girish Kumar ¹, P. C. Mazumdar ¹, Gaurav Sharma ¹

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

Abstract

Latrielle (1802) erected the genus Chlorion (Hymenoptera: Sphecidae) based on the type species Sphex lobatus Fabricius, 1775. This is a widely distributed genus all over the world except Australia and Europe (Bohart & Menke, 1976). Twenty species with additional three subspecies are recorded under this genus worldwide (Pulawski, 2009) of which three species namely Chlorion lobatum (Fabricius, 1775), C. regale Smith, 1873 and C. splendidum Fabricius, 1804 are recorded from the Indian subcontinent. In this paper, the genus Chlorion is reviewed with several new distributional records.

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A. Murmu ¹, B. Talukder ¹, P. C. Mazumdar ¹

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

Abstract

Field Studies on the non-human primates of West Bengal have been carried out earlier by Southwick et el, (1964); Oppenheimer (1973); Bhuinya et al, (1993); Mukherjee et al. (1986); Chaudhuri et al, (2004) and Murmu et al, (2007). The primate species recorded in West Bengal are Rhesus macaque (Macaca mulatto), Assamese miacaque (Macca assamensis) and Hanuman langur (Semnopithecus entellus). The Assamese macaque is restricted in distribution only in Darjeeling district (Mukherjee et al 1995, Murmmu et al 2004).

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