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A Taxonomic Account of Hover Flies (Insecta: Diptera: Syrphidae) with 4 New Records from Cold Dry Zones of Himachal Pradesh, India

Jayita Sengupta, Atanu Naskar, Aniruddha Maity, Sumit Home chaudhuri, Dhriti Banerjee
2018 International Journal of Advancement in Life Sciences Research  

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Eighteen (18) species of hover flies (Insecta:Diptera:Syrphidae) under 14 genera and 2 subfamilies has been reported from the Cold dry zone of Himachal Pradesh which includes Kinnaur, Lahul & Spiti and Pangi range of Chamba districs. 4 species namely Chrysotoxum violaceum Brunetti, 1923, Sphiximorpha triangulifera (Brunetti, 1913),Mallota (Mallota) orientalis (Wiedemann, 1824), Mallota (Mallota) varicolor(Walker, 1856) has been reported from the first time from this cold and dry zone zone as
more » ... l as from the state of Himachal Pradesh. Their taxonomic keys and detail diagnosis of the reported species has been discussed along with the distributional pattern of these species along the cold dry zone of Himachal Pradesh.
doi:10.31632/ijalsr.2018v01i04.003 fatcat:rzchtabozvezfbqlu72yjq35pe
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Jayita Sengupta, Atanu Naskar, Aniruddha Maity, Sumit Home chaudhuri, Dhriti Banerjee. "A Taxonomic Account of Hover Flies (Insecta: Diptera: Syrphidae) with 4 New Records from Cold Dry Zones of Himachal Pradesh, India." International Journal of Advancement in Life Sciences Research 1.4 (2018) 13-30