DIVERSITY OF HEMIPTERA FAUNA OF BHOJ WETLAND, BHOPAL, MADHYA PRADESH, INDIA
Keywords:
Abstract
Madhya Pradesh state houses 9 national parks and 25 wildlife sanctuaries. The order Hemiptera is the one of the diverse and largest group of insect with more than 35000 species known all over the world. The present study reports the occurrence of true bug’s diversity of Bhoj Wetland, Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh. The Bhoj Wetland consisting of two lakes (Upper & Lower lakes) are manmade reservoirs. The Upper Lake (Badee talab) was created in 11th century and has a partial urban component in its catchment (361 sq km in area) on the eastern end while the remainder is rural. The Lower lake, locally known as Chhota Talab, was created in 18th century and is situated towards the east end of Upper lake and is fully surrounded by built-up areas. Compared to the Upper Lake it has a small catchment area of 9.60 sq km. The wetland supports a wide variety of flora and fauna and is rich in bio-diversity. As part of the scientific documentation of the faunal diversity of the Bhoj Wetland faunastic surveys were undertaken by the scientific team of Zoological Survey of India. During the survey-cum-collections of sample of fauna from the sanctuary, entomofauanl sample of the order Hemiptera were collected from 25 localities of the wtland area, in Bhopal District. The Hemiptera insect’s sample comprising of 95 specimens were taxonomically identified and catalogued. Among insects the order Hemiptera is divided into 2 suborders, viz. Homotera and Hetroptera. 29 species were identified belonging to 11 families of order Hemiptera among which one of Homoptera and ten of Heteroptera. Family Pentatomidae and Reuviidae of Heteroptera dominate. This study also describes the 3 New Records of bugs from Madhya Pradesh, India. So far no survey on Hemiptera fauna has been carried out in Bhoj Wetland. Hemiptera insects, generally known as bugs as considered to be the sincere pests in agriculture. The present study on the diversity of the Hemiptera fauna of Bhoj Wetland.
References
-
Downloads
Published
Issue
Section
License
Copyright Notice
Submission of an article implies that the work described has not been published previously (except in the form of an abstract or as part of a published lecture or academic thesis), that it is not under consideration for publication elsewhere, that its publication is approved by all authors and tacitly or explicitly by the responsible authorities where the work was carried out, and that, if accepted, will not be published elsewhere in the same form, in English or in any other language, without the written consent of the Publisher. The Editors reserve the right to edit or otherwise alter all contributions, but authors will receive proofs for approval before publication.
Copyrights for articles published in World Scholars journals are retained by the authors, with first publication rights granted to the journal. The journal/publisher is not responsible for subsequent uses of the work. It is the author's responsibility to bring an infringement action if so desired by the author.
