FAUNISTIC STUDIES ON SYRPHIDS IN DIFFERENT AGRO-ECOSYSTEMS

dc.contributor.advisorPRABHU, C GANIGER.
dc.contributor.authorSUBRAMANYA SAI TEJA, KATTA
dc.date.accessioned2023-01-18T10:59:41Z
dc.date.available2023-01-18T10:59:41Z
dc.date.issued2022-01-10
dc.descriptionThesisen_US
dc.description.abstractThe study was carried out at GKVK campus of the University of Agricultural Sciences, Bengaluru. Syrphid flies were collected using sweep net, malaise traps and rearing methods from different districts of Karnataka, Kerala, Uttarakhand and Andhra Pradesh between October, 2019 - November, 2021. A maximum of 90.34 per cent of the specimens were collected by sweepnet, followed by malaise trap (4.13%) and by rearing larvae on different hosts (5.51%). Syrphids were collected from seven different ecosystems, of which the highest numbers (53.82%) were collected from agro ecosystem. Whereas, numbers collected from forest land, grass land, meadows, flower ecosystem, fallow land and wet land were 15.27, 12.98, 11.45, 4.20, 1.53 and 0.76 per cent, respectively. Among the agricultural ecosystem, highest number of specimens were collected from finger millet ecosystem. Magggots of Serratoparagus serratus Fabricius, 1805, Allobaccha amphithoe Stuckenberg, 1954 and Ischiodon scutellaris Fabricius, 1805 were reared from ragi root aphid (Tetraneura nigriabdominalis Sasaki, 1899), flatid (Siphanta sp. Stal, 1860) and cabbage aphid (Brevicoryne brassicae Linnaeus, 1758), respectively. Whereas, three species of syrphids namely Dideopsis aegrota Fabricius, 1805, Betasyrphus linga Ghorpade, 1994 and Ischiodon scutellaris Fabricius, 1805 were reared on redgram aphid (Aphis craccivora Koch, 1854). A total of 289 specimens of syrphid flies belonging to 3 sub-families, 8 tribes, 18 genera and 23 species have been reported and described. Male genitalia of 16 of the 23 species have been illustrated. In the present study, the species Microdon bellus Brunetti, 1923 and Monoceromyia eumenioides Saunders, 1842 were first report from South India.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://krishikosh.egranth.ac.in/handle/1/5810192537
dc.keywordsSYRPHIDS IN DIFFERENT AGRO-ECOSYSTEMS, FAUNISTIC STUDIES ON SYRPHIDS IN DIFFERENT AGRO-ECOSYSTEMSen_US
dc.language.isoEnglishen_US
dc.pages143en_US
dc.subAgricultural Entomologyen_US
dc.themeSYRPHIDS IN DIFFERENT AGRO-ECOSYSTEMSen_US
dc.these.typeM.Scen_US
dc.titleFAUNISTIC STUDIES ON SYRPHIDS IN DIFFERENT AGRO-ECOSYSTEMSen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US
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