true flies diversity and endemism in himachal pradesh india
Sankarsan Roy,Bulganin Mitra,Olive Biswas,Udipta Chakraborti
Published in International Journal of Advanced Research in Biology and BioTechnology
ISSN: xxxx-xxx Impact Factor:xx Volume:1 Issue:1 Year: 12 March,2015 Pages:46-59
Abstract
There is 503 dipteran species from 44 families of order Diptera, of which 72 species (14.31%) are endemic to the state of Himachal Pradesh, a state of India from Western Himalayan region. A total of 175 species from suborder Nematocera and 328 species from suborder Brachycera are reported from this state. The maximum number of species are reported from the family Syrphidae (76 species) which is 15.11% of the total reported species from this state. There are nine families having only single representative in this state.100% species of the families Nemestrinidae, Therevidae and Platystomatidae are endemic to this state and the least number of endemic species are found in the family Culicidae (2.12%).
Kewords
Diversity, Diptera, Himachal Pradesh, Endemism, Habitat, Food Diversity.
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