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

Deepa Jaiswal ¹, Kailash Chandra ², C. A. N. Rao ¹, Sujit K. R. Ghosh ²

Affiliations
1 Zoological Survey of India, Freshwater Biological Station, Hyderabad-500 048, IN
2 Zoological Survey of India, New Alipore, Kolkata-700053, IN

Abstract

The most successful order of the insect, Coleoptera includes 3, 87,100 described species from the whole world representing about 38% of insect species (1,020,007 species) of all the orders (Zhang, 2011). Of these, 40,000 species belong to aquatic beetles pertaining to at least eighteen families. Despite of having multitudes of freshwater aquatic habitats in India, knowledge on these beetles is quite insufficient.

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