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      Insect drift; northern Arabian sea

    • Abstract

       

      Air borne insects, mostly carried by wind currents, were trapped over the northern Arabian sea (16‡ to 20‡ N; 68‡ to 72‡ E), in the course of cruise No. 111, ORVSAGAR KANYA (March 14 to April 7, 1996). A total of 2,301 insects belonging to 8 different orders, 47 families and 173 species were trapped. Of these, Hymenoptera was represented by the largest number (1082), which was followed by Hemiptera (586), Diptera (552), Coleoptera (51), Neuroptera (10), Trichoptera (03), Lepidoptera (03) and Orthoptera (01). The trapped insects were mostly between 0.6 mm to over 11 mm long. The data was examined for α-diversity as well as for possible correlations between various parameters like the diversity index, size and number of insects trapped on one hand and the distance of the nearest land mass in wind direction, on the other.

    • Author Affiliations

       

      S C Pathak1 Vandana Kulshrestha1 Arun Kumar Choubey1 A H Parulekar2

      1. Department of PG Studies and Research in Biological Sciences, Rani Durgavati University, Jabalpur - 482 001, India
      2. Biological Oceanography Division, National Institute of Oceanography, Dona Paula, Goa - 403 004, India

    • Dates

       
      Published
      June 1999
      Manuscript received
      26 February 1998
      Accepted
      16 February 1999

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