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

Open Access Open Access  Restricted Access Subscription Access

Aquatic Beetles of North Bengal, India (Coleoptera:Noteridae, Dytiscidae and Hydrophilidae)


Affiliations
1 Zoological Survey of India, New Alipore, Kolkata, India
 

   Subscribe/Renew Journal


The present study comprises of 19 species (Noteridae-03, Dytiscidae-11 & Hydrophilidae-05) of aquatic beetles belonging to 13 genera (Noteridae-02 & Dytiscidae-06 & Hydrophilidae-05) and 3 families collected from Darjeeling, Jalpaiguri and Alipurduar districts of North Bengal. Two species among the 19 species are first time recorded from West Bengal.
User
Subscription Login to verify subscription
Notifications
Font Size

  • Bistrom O. 1986: Review of the genus Hydroglyphus Motschulsky (= Guignotus Houlbert) in Africa (Coleoptera, Dytiscidae). Acta Zoologica Fennica, 182: 1-56.

  • Bistrom O. 1997: Taxonomic Revision of the genus Hydrovatus Motschulsky (Coleoptera, Dytiscidae). Entomologica Basiliensia, 19: 57-584.

  • Biswas S, Mukhopadhyay P. & Saha S.K. 1995: Insecta: Coleoptera: Dytiscidae. Zoological Survey of India, State Fauna Series 3: Fauna of West Bengal, Part 6(A): 77-120.

  • Biswas S, Mukhopadhyay P. & Saha S.K. 1995: Insecta: Coleoptera: Hydrophilidae. Zoological Survey of India, State Fauna Series 3: Fauna of West Bengal, Part 6(A): 143-168.

  • Brancucci M.1983: Revision desespeces est-palearctiques, Orientales et australinnes du Genre Laccophilus (Col. Dytiscidae) Ent. Arb. Mus. Frey, 31/32: 241-426.

  • Ghosh S.K. & Nilsson A.N. 2012: Catalogue of the diving beetles of India and adjacent countries (Coleoptera: Dytiscidae). Skorvnopparn Umel Supplement, 3: 1-77.

  • Nilsson A.N. 1998: Dytiscidae: V. The genus Platynectes Regimbart in China, with a revision of the dissimilis-complex (Coleoptera). Pp. 107-121. In: Jach M.A. & Ji L. (Eds.): Water beetles of China. Vol. II. Wien: Zoologisch-Botanische Gesellschaft in Osterreich and Wiener Coleopterologenverein, 371 pp.

  • Nilsson A.N. 2012: A World Catalogue of the Family Noteridae. Version 16.VIII.2011, 54 pp.

  • Nilsson A.N. 2013: A World Catalogue of the family Dytiscidae, or the Diving Beetles (Coleoptera, Adephaga). Version 1.I.2013. Umea: distributed electronically as a PDF file by the author, 304.

  • Vazirani T.G. 1969a: Contribution to the study of Aquatic Beetles (Coleoptera) 2. A Review of the Subfamilies Noterinae, Laccophilinae, Dytiscinae and Hydroporinae (in part) from India, Oriental Insects, 2(3-4): 211-341.

  • Vazirani T.G. 1970a: Contributions to the study of aquatic beetles (Coleoptera). VII. A revision of Indian Colymbetinae (Dytiscidae). Oriental Insects, 4: 303-362.

  • Vazirani T.G. 1970b. Contribution to the study of Aquatic Beetles (Coleoptera) V. A Review of Indian Hydroporinae (Dytiscidae) in part, from India, Oriental Insects, 4(1): 93-129.

  • Wewalka G. 1975: Revision der Artengruppe des Hydaticus vittatus (Fabricius), (Dytiscidae, Col.). Koleopterologische Rundschau, 52: 87-100.


Abstract Views: 515

PDF Views: 202




  • Aquatic Beetles of North Bengal, India (Coleoptera:Noteridae, Dytiscidae and Hydrophilidae)

Abstract Views: 515  |  PDF Views: 202

Authors

Sujit Kr. Ghosh
Zoological Survey of India, New Alipore, Kolkata, India
Swapan Kr. Das
Zoological Survey of India, New Alipore, Kolkata, India

Abstract


The present study comprises of 19 species (Noteridae-03, Dytiscidae-11 & Hydrophilidae-05) of aquatic beetles belonging to 13 genera (Noteridae-02 & Dytiscidae-06 & Hydrophilidae-05) and 3 families collected from Darjeeling, Jalpaiguri and Alipurduar districts of North Bengal. Two species among the 19 species are first time recorded from West Bengal.

References





DOI: https://doi.org/10.26515/rzsi.v116i4.142117