About the book attribute twenty publications made by 30 students of taxonomy and biodiversity. Most of them are the authorities and have the expertise on their group for more than two or three decades. Their contribution on taxa for this country or a part of it, or including neighbouring countries have occupied a respectable place in this book. The publication presented in this volume can be listed as diversity of orthoptera in India by Kailash Chandra, et al., of ZSI, Jabalpur. It contains the indian record of 1033 spices/subspecies belonging to 398 genera. Diversity of higher categories of fruit files diptera:tephritidea ) and their hosts association by M. L. Agarwal of RAU, Pussa (Samatipur) include description of its 4 subfamilies and 18 tribes. A synotopic list of free living and parasitic protozoa from maharastrahas been presented by l. Bindu and n. C. Nandi of ZSI, Kolkata. The work includes 52 free living and 484 spices of parasitic protozoa recorded from Maharashtra. Diversity in anterior feeding aperture in rhabdited nematodes is presented by p. Bohra and r. Sultan of ZSI , Jodhpur. A total of 72 species under 2 subgera,27 genera have been presented in this work. R. K. Gupta, el al. of JNVU, jodhpur have been contributed on the diversity of halictided been in Rajasthan and diversity of apidae been in Rajasthan. R. K. Gupta and S. K. Charan have made a first-time contribution on apoidean visitors of Capparis decidua in arid north west India. They have given the data concerning 64 species incoming 20 genera of bees recorded on this crop from the referred area.

This book finally contains an excellent contribution made by R. Sundararaj and R. Pushpa (institute of wood science and technology, Bangalore) it deals whiteflies (aleyrodidae, hemiptera) of India the work includes 381 species grouped under 55 genera of the family those are found in India and neighbor countries. Nine species are new record and the monographic work includes all levees identification keys and hosts record.

Almost all presentations in this book are support with description with biological characters detailed figures and different levels identification keys. The book will be of immense use to all the science and student of invertebrates of the world.

 

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1. Diversity of Higher Categories of Indian Fruit Files (Dipter: Tephertidae) and Their Host Associations
2. A Synoptic List of Free-living and Parasitic Protozoa from Maharashtra
3. Diversity in Anterior Feeding Apparatuses in Rhabdtid Nematodes
4. Diversity of Orthoptera (Insecta) in India: State of Our Knowledge
5. A Checklist of Insect Parasitic Nematodes of India
6. Diversity of Halictidea Bees (Hymenoptera: Apoidea) in Rajasthan, India
7. Diversity of Apidea Bees (Hymenoptera: Apoidea) in Rajasthan, India
8. Studies on the Apoidean Visitors of Capparis Decidua (Forsk.) Edgew (Capparaceae), A Resource for the Conservation of Bee Biodiversity in Arid North West India
9. Biodiversity of Genus Drosophila (Insecta, Diptera: Drosophilidea) of South India
10. A Conspectus of Broscini of India and Adjcent Countries (Coleoptera: Carabidea)
11. Review of Aedes Species of Central India (Insecta, Diptera: Culicidae)
12. A Dichotomous Pictorial Key Based Upon External Genitalia for the Identification of Indian Phlebotomidae
13. Wood Boring Beetles (Insecta: Coleoptera) in the Kerala Part of Nilgiri Bioshere Reserver, India
14. Taxonomic Studies on the Geometrid Moths (Lepidoptera: Geometridae) of Kerala, India
15. A Revesion of the Indian Species of Genus Torymoides Walker (Inspecta: Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea: Torymidae)
16. The Natural History: Ancestry, Phylogeny and Zoogeography of Silvanidae and Current Taxonomic Status of Indian Fauna (Coleoptera: Inspecta)
17. Diversity of Dung Beetles (Coprinae: Scarabaeidae: Coleoptra) of Gujarat, India
18. Status of Butterflies (Lepidoptera: Inspecta) Species under Indian Wildlife (Protection) Act 1972 and their Conservation in India
19. A Review of the Studies on Damselfies and Dragonflies (Insecta: Odonata) of the World
20. Aleyrodids (Aleyrodidae: Hemiptera) of India with Description of Some New Species and New Host Record

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