Diversity of Hover flies (Insecta: Diptera: Syrphidae) with 3 New Records from Shivalik Hill Zone of Himachal Pradesh, India
Abstract
Twenty two species under 14 genera over 2 subfamilies have been reported from Shivalik hill zone of Himachal Pradesh, India. 3 species namely Allograpta (Allograpta) javana (Wiedemann,1824), Dideopsis aegrota (Fabricius,1805) and Eristalinus (Eristalinus) tabanoides (Jaennicke,1867) are reported for the first time from this Shivalik hill zone as well as from the state of Himachal Pradesh. Their taxonomic keys and detail diagnosis of the reported species has been discussed along with the distributional pattern of these species along the Shivalik hill zone of Himachal Pradesh.
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Hover flies, New Record, Shivalik hill zone, Syrphidae, Taxonomy
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Ferrier, Simon., Ninan, K.N., Leadley, P., Alkemade, Rob.,Acosta, L.A., Akcakaya, H. R., Brotons, L., Cheung, W., Christensen, V., Harhash, K.A., Kabubo,M. J., Lundquist, C., Obersteiner, M., Pereira, H., Peterson, G., Pichs. R.M., Ravindranath, N. H., Rondinini, C., & Wintle, B. (2016). IPBES (2016): Summary for policymakers of the methodological assessment of scenarios and models of biodiversity and ecosystem services of the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services.
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Ghorpadé, K. (2009). Some nomenclatural notes on Indian subregion Syrphini (Diptera: Syrphidae). Colemania, 15, pp.3-13.
Ghorpadé, K., & Shehzad, A. (2013). An annotated checklist and select bibliography of the Hoverflies (Diptera–Syrphidae) of Pakistan, Indian subcontinent. Colemania, 37, pp.1-26.
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Mani, M. S. (2013). Ecology and biogeography of high altitude insects (Vol. 4). Springer Science & Business Media.
Miranda, G. F. G., Young, A. D., Locke, M. M., Marshall, S. A., Skevington, J. H., & Thompson, F. C. (2013). Key to the genera of Nearctic Syrphidae. Canadian Journal of Arthropod Identification, 23(1), pp. 351.https://doi.org/10.3752/cjai.2013.23
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Sengupta, J., Naskar, A., Maity, A., Hazra, S., Mukhopadhyay, E., Banerjee, D., & Ghosh, S. (2016). An updated distributional account of Indian hover flies (Insecta: Diptera: Syrphidae). J Entomol Zool Stud, 4, pp.381-396.
Sengupta, J., Naskar, A., Maity, A., Hazra, S., & Banerjee, D. (2016). New Distributional Records and Annotated Keys of Hover Flies (Insecta: Diptera: Syrphidae) from Himachal Pradesh, India. J. Adv. Zool, 37(1), pp.31-54.
Sengupta, J., A. Naskar, A. Maity, S. chaudhuri, and D. Banerjee. “A Taxonomic Account of Hover Flies (Insecta: Diptera: Syrphidae) With 4 New Records from Cold Dry Zones of Himachal Pradesh, India”. International Journal of Advancement in Life Sciences Research, 1(4), pp.13-30. https://doi.org/10.31632/ijalsr.2018v01i04.003
Shah, G. M., Jan, U., & Wachkoo, A. A. (2014). A checklist of hoverflies (Diptera: Syrphidae) in the western Himalaya, India. Acta Zoologica Hungarica, 60(4), pp.283-305.
Ssymank, A., Kearns, C. A., Pape, T., & Thompson, F. C. (2008). Pollinating flies (Diptera): a major contribution to plant diversity and agricultural production. Biodiversity, 9(1-2), pp. 86-89. https://doi.org/10.1080/14888386.2008.9712892
Teskey, H.J., Vockeroth, J.R. & Wood, D.M., (1981). Manual of Nearctic Diptera. Ottawa, Research Branch, Agriculture Canada, Monograph, 27.
Thompson, F. C., & Pape, T. (2019). Syrphidae. Systema Dipterorum, Version 1.5. 13354 records.
Thompson, F. C., Vockeroth, J. R., & Speight, M. C. (1982). The Linnaean species of flower flies (Diptera: Syrphidae).
Vockeroth, J. R. (1992). The flower flies of the subfamily Syrphinae of Canada, Alaska, and Greenland: Diptera, Syrphidae (Vol. 1867). Agriculture Canada.
http://publications.gc.ca/pub?id=9.811395&sl=0
Vockeroth, J. R., Thompson, F. C., McAlpine, J. F., Peterson, B. V., Shewell, G. E., Teskey, H. J., & Wood, D. M. (1987). Syrphidae, pp. 713-743. Manual of Nearctic Diptera, 2.
http://www.publications.gc.ca/pub?id=9.610315&sl=0
Wachkoo, A. A., Steenis, J. V., Rather, Z. A., Sengupta, J. and Banerjee, D. (2019). First record of the genus Spilomyia (Diptera, Syrphidae) from the Oriental region. Turkish Journal of Zoology. 43, pp.239-242. https://doi.org/10.3906/zoo-1811-27
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Sengupta, J., Naskar, A., Homechaudhuri, S., & Banerjee, D. (2019). Diversity of Hover flies (Insecta: Diptera: Syrphidae) with 3 New Records from Shivalik Hill Zone of Himachal Pradesh, India. International Journal of Advancement in Life Sciences Research, 2(3), 39-55. Retrieved from https://ijalsr.org/index.php/journal/article/view/64
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