The islands of Andaman and Nicobar situated in the Bay of Bengal and Indian Ocean, with its characteristic physiography, climate, vegetation, etc., offer an ideal condition to support fairly rich termite fauna. But, the real faunal magnitude in these insular areas is known far less than our expectation. Whatever fauna known, is mainly based on collections made by the non-specialists. Many gaps in our knowledge still exist due to manifold reasons. Uptil now, no ...
Memoirs of the Zoological Survey of India, Vol. 20, No. 4: A Taxonomic Monograph on the World Species of Termites of the Family Rhinotermitidae (Isoptera : Insecta)
The present paper deals with a taxonomic study of the Symbiotic Flagellates from some wood-inhabiting termites of the Families Kalotermitidae and Rhinotermitidae from different parts of India. However, Altogether 48 species of Flagellates recovered from 9 species of termite hosts have been dealt in the present work in details. Apart from this, keys to these flagellate species based on their morphological features have been incorporated for their easy ...
Memoirs of the Zoological Survey of India, Volume 21, No. 2: Termite (Isoptera) Fauna of the Himalaya Including Its Zoogeographical Analysis
Contents: 1. Introduction. 2. Physiography, climate, vegetation, etc. of the biotic provinces of the Himalaya. 3. Literature review and present status of the fauna. 4. Material methods: i. Material. ii. Methods: a. Classification. b. Measurements. 5. Systematic accounts: i. Key to the families of Isoptera (based on imago and soldier). 6. Zoogeographical analysis: i. Faunal composition and distribution: a. Faunal composition. b. Horizontal distribution. c. ...
