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Entomology in the Doon Valley (Garhwal Himalaya) A Stronghold for insect research

B. K. Tyagi & Vijay Veer

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Entomology in the Doon Valley (Garhwal Region) is a unique journey into annals of the country s most fascinating and highly entomofauna rich habitat the Dehra Dun or the Doon Valley, tucked in the cosy climate of the foothills of the lower Himalayan region. Notwithstanding an unprecedented quantum of fragmented information available on the insects of the Doon Valley, courtesy various different long term research programmes carried out at the three major research institutions, viz., the Forest Research Institute Colleges, the Zoological Survey of India and The Dayanand Anglo Vedic (PG) College, all located in Dehra Dun, yet no single entomological treatise detailing all the insect orders, supported by relevant local references, was ever offered to have a firsthand knowledge on the Doon Valley s buoyant research tradition. For the first time, therefore, the present treatment comes forward to satiate a nature-lover s desire to know completely about their own insect fauna. Besides offering an uncanny history of research, along with a string of researchers and institutions engaged in entomological research in the Doon Valley, the book describes entomologic characteristics of all the 32 Orders of Class Insecta, with emphasis on research contributions on the local and endemic fauna. To facilitate our understanding, the book offers as an example inventories of the extant taxa of a couple of orders and, still more importantly, bio-bibliographies of a few Doon Valley entomologists, as inspirational life stories for the beginners. The Book, written in a lucid language, will surely serve a good purpose for both the undergraduates, postgraduates and research scholars engaged in insect research, on one hand, and the professional entomologists not only from the Grahwal region but also across the country and beyond, on the other.

Dr B. Kiauta, D.Sci.

Professor Emeritus of Invertebrate Cytogenetics and Cytotaxonomy of the University of Utrecht; Past-Head of the Netherlands

Centre for Alpine Biological Research, Utrecht; Past Executive Editor of Odonatologica; etc., etc. 

1.  Introduction to the Doon Valley

2.  Topography and physiography of the Doon Valley

3.  Demography of Dehradun

4.  Climate of the Doon Valley

5.  History of entomological research in the Doon Valley

6.  Selected major bibliographic references useful for entomologists of the Doon Valley

7.  Institutions with famous research history in entomology

8.  Interesting sites for entomological explorations

9.  Insect order-wise taxonomy, bioecology and distibution, with major references to research works done in the Doon Valley

I. APTERYGOTA

1. Protura

2. Collembola

3. Diplura

4. Thysanura

II. PTERYGOTA

(i) Palaeoptera

5. Ephemeroptera

6. Odonata

(ii) Neoptera

(a) Polyneoptera

7. Orthoptera

8. Phasmida

9. Grylloblattodea

10. Mantophasmatodea

11. Plecoptera

12. Embioptera

13. Dermaptera

14. Blattodea

15. Mantodea

16. Isoptera

(b) Oligoneoptera

17. Coleoptera

18. Neuroptera

19. Hymenoptera

20. Strepsiptera

21. Aphaniptera

22. Diptera

23. Mecoptera

24. Trichoptera

25. Lepidoptera

(c) Paraneoptera

26. Thysanoptera

27. Zoraptera

28. Psocoptera

29. Mallaphaga

30. Siphunculata

31. Homoptera

32. Heteroptera

10.  Annex 1: Catalogues of extant taxa of selected insect orders from the Doon Valley: (i) Odonata,

and (ii) Thysanoptera

11.  Annex 2: The Doon Valley’s eminent entomologists

12.  Annex 3: Bio-bibliographies with motivational anecdotes of some entomologists from the Doon Valley

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