Vol. 7, Issue 11 (2018)

Author(s):
Sujit KR Ghosh, Udipta Chakraborti and Bulganin Mitra

Abstract:
Present communication reports 33 species under 18 genera belonging to 4 families of aquatic beetles for the first time from Dadra & Nagar Haveli (DNH) and Daman & Diu, Union territories of India. The distributional pattern of these reported species within and outside India are also discussed here. Present survey also discuss that very less number of habitats are remained in these UTs for these biodiversity indicator taxa. In addition to this, a taxonomical short note is also given on the misidentification of the species Eretes griseus (Fabricius, 1781) present in National Zoological collection of Zoological survey of India, Kolkata.