Diversity of Odonates (Insecta: Odonata) in Fish Farm, College of Veterinary and Animal Sciences, CSKHPKV, Palampur, Himachal Pradesh, India

Abstract

Odonata diversity in fish farm of Department of Fisheries, CSKHPKV, Palampur, Kangra Valley, Himachal Pradesh were comprehensively studied and documented for the first time. A total of 27 species belonging to 19 genera and 7 families of two suborders are recorded. The suborder Zygoptera was represented by 13 species and 14 species represents Anisoptera. Among the families, Libellulidae was richest family with 13 species and followed by Coenagrionidae with 9 species. The wide range of habitats including foraging and nocturnal roosting habitat at Fish Farm, CSKHPKV leads to greatest species diversity.

Description of the male Macrogomphus wynaadicus Fraser, 1924, from the Western Ghats, India (Odonata: Gomphidae)

“…The genus Macrogomphus Selys, 1858, is widely distributed in Asia and currently has 15 described species (Paulson et al 2023). Five species are known to occur in India (Subramanian & Babu 2017), of which Macrogomphus wynaadicus Fraser, 1924, is restricted to the Western Ghats (Babu et al 2013;Kalkman et al 2020). It was described based on a single female collected by Fraser (1924) from Masinagudi in the southern Western Ghats.…”

“…2023). Five species are known to occur in India ( Subramanian & Babu 2017), of which Macrogomphus wynaadicus Fraser , 1924, is restricted to the Western Ghats ( Babu et al . 2013; Kalkman et al .…”

Sympetrum hypomelas (Selys, 1884), an Addition to Anisoptera Fauna of Pakistan

“…, Arunachal Pradesh (Ram and Prasad, 1999), Northern Italy (Ottolenghi, 1987), Belgium (Michiels and Dhondt, 1990), Japan (Matsura et al, 1995;Ishizawa, 1998), Iran (Heidari and Dumont, 2002;Ebrahimi, 2009), India (Sharma, et al, 2009;Babu and Nandy, 2010;Kulkarni and Subramanian, 2013;Tiple and Koparde, 2015), USA (Sformo and Doak, 2006;Pilgrim and Von Dohlen, 2007), Turkey (Kazanci, 2010), Taiwan (Tang et al, 2013), Russia (Popova and Haritonov, 2014), Manipur (Takhelmayum and Gupta, 2014),West Bengal (Dawn, 2014), Southwestern Nigeria (Adu et al, 2015), Western Bhutan (Mitra, 2006;, Pakistan (Chaudhry et. al., 2016), Himachal Pradesh (Babu, 2017), China (Zhang et al, 2018).…”