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Zoological Survey of Ind a Occasional Paper No OCCA,SIONALPAPERNO.202 ZOOLOGICAL SURVEY OF IND A OCCASIONAL PAPER NO. 202 RECORDS OF THE ZOOLOGICAL SURVE'Y OF INDIA Ecology and biogeography of Odonata with special reference to Indian Fauna TRIDIB RANJAN MITRA Zoological Survey of India, M-Block, New A lip ore, Kolkata-700053 Edited by the Director, Zoological Survey of India, Kolkata Zoological Survey of India Kolkata CITATION Mitra, T. R. 2003. Ecology and biogeography ofOdonata with special reference to Indian Fauna, Rec. zool. Surv. India, Occ. Paper No. 202 : 1-41 (Published - Director, Zool. Surv. India, Kolkata Published : January, 2003 ISBN: 81-85874-82-4 © Government oj'lndia, 2003 ALL RIGHTS RESERVED o No part of this publication may be reporduced. stored in a retrieval system or transmitted. in any form or by any means •. electronic. mechanical. photocopying. recording or otherwise without the prior permission of the publisher. o This book is sold subje,ct to the condition that it shall not. by way of trade. be lent, re­ sold hired out or otherwise disposed of without the publisher's consent. in any form of binding or cover other than that in which, it is published. LJ The correct price of this publication is the price printed on this page. Any revised price indicated by a rubber stamp or by a sticker or by any other means is incorrect and should be unacceptable. PRICE Indian : Rs. 150.00 Foreign : $10; £ 7 Published at the Publication Division by the Director, Zoological Survey of India, 234/4, Ale Bose Road, 2nd MSO Building (13th Floor), Nizam Palace, Calcutta-700 020 and printed at PSB Agency Service, Kolkata - 700014 RECORDS OF THE ZOOLOGICAL SURVEY OF INDIA OCCASIONAL PAPER No. 101 2003 Pages 1-41 CONTENTS Introduction .......................................................................................................................................................... 1 Short History of Odonata .................................................................................................................................. 1 Adaptations in different phases of life ........................................................................................................ 5 Probable ecology offossil Odonata ................................................................................................. 5 Conspectus of ecology of modem Odonata .................................................................................. 5 Adults ..................................................................................................................................................... 5 Larvae ................................................................................................................................................... 11 Ecolog}' and geographical distribution ................................................................................. 0 ..................... 14 I. Hill and monatane fonns ................................................................................................................... 16 2. Nonmontane forest fonns .................................................................................................................. 17 3. Insular fonns ........................................................................................................................................ 17 4. Xerophilic fonns ............................................ 0 ...... 0 ................... 0 .......................................................... 17 S. Paraxerophiiic foons ............................................................................................................................ 17 Species occurring in physiography based ecosystems .......................................................................... 17 Himalayarl ecosystems ............................... '.......................................................................................... 17 Fauna of Eastern Himalaya .................................................................................................... 0 •••••••••• 18 Fauna of Westernn Himalaya ........................................................................................................... 20 Fauna of Meghalaya-Mikir hill region ........................................................................................... 22 Fauna of Purbanchal .......................................................................................................................... 24 Fauna of peninsular uplands ........................................................... ~ ............................................... 25 Fauna of Western Ghats Nilgiris and Decan plateau ................................................................. 25 Fauna of tlte Centra] upl~d ............................................................................................................ 26 Fauna oftlte Eastern Ghats ...................................................................................................................... 27 Islarld fauna ............................................................................................................................................... 28 Fauna of Indo-Ganga-Brahmaputra Plain .............................................................................................. 29 Fauna of Brahmaputra valley including fauna of indeterminate localities of "Assam" ............... 30 Ecolo&)' 8Ild faunal affinities .......................................................................................................................... 31 D-lSCIlSSlon· ......................................................................................................................................................... 32 Slllllll18ly............................................................................................................................................................. 34 Acmowledgements .......................................................................................................................................... 34 Remrences ......................................................................................................................................................... 35 INTRODUCTION Dragonflies are good friends of man. According to Fraser (1933), "Life in the tropics would soon become unbearable were it not for the beneficient work of vast numbers of dragonflies acting as scavengers of the atomosphere" These insects are inhabiting the world for nearly 220 milllion years along with cockroaches and mayflies. The oldest dragonfly is called Protodonata. The Protodonata has been discovered from the Carboniferous rock along with ancestors of modern cockroaches and mayflies. The rock which bears clue to the origin of insects has not yet been discovered hence the ancestor of Protodonata can not be defined. It is interesting to lJote that dragonflies closely related to modern Odonates, have appeared in the Mesozoic era. The ecology of Odonata is based on the selection of the habitat. This is mainly done by their eyes, movable head and flight power. They have got the highest development of the compound eyes (Huxley, 1953). Eyes occupy almost the whole of the head and the number of facets vary from 10,000 to 28,000 in adults. Corbet (1962) : from Ando (1957) has cited the variation in olnmatidial numbers from 7 (common) to 270 in each compound eye of &econd instar larvae of 23 genera under three suborders. The head is movable and is set on the prothorax or the neck. The head can be twisted sideways 180°, backward 70°, forward and downward 40°. The thorax is divisible into prothorax or the neck bearing one pair of legs and a synthorax (fused meso-and metathorax) bearing two pairs of legs two pairs of wings. The synthorax is very oblique, the anterior part has become the dorsum, carrying wings on the back and legs ar~ thrusted forward beneath the head. Three pairs of legs form a sort of basket to catch the prey. The widths of hindwings, especially in Anisoptera, help them to capture preys while on wings and elude the predator. These insects can fly backward, move vertically upward, like a helicopter or stop in turn in the midst of the rapid progression, as if they have been rammed into. This could be made possible due to adjustment of the centre of gravity between the bases of the wings and leaves a sharp contrast with all other living insects (Mitra,1999). These features have selection value and have helped Odonata to proliferate into nearly 7,000 species in the world. SHORT HISTORY OF ODONATA The Protodonata, Meganeura monyi Brongniart has been recorded from the top of the Carboniferous series in the coal measures at Commentry, near SLEtienne in France. Meganeurids have also been collected from the Permian, the last phase of the Palaeozoic era. In the Lower Permian we get Protozygoptera and in the Upper Permian we get true !t6- N I NOlA PHYSICAL FEATURES s ;:0 nttl oN o I.- r en C ~ Z f o tl ..): o n n \j .- >­ ""0 rn ~ Z o tv o Fig. 1. Physiography of India: Showing major features of physical ecosystems. N MITRA: Ecology and biogeography ofOdonala with special reference to Indian Fauna 3 800 o N ("") N s o ....(0 BAV OF BENGAL • ,•• • .~. 0 • o t.,• IJ INDAN OCEAN ~ 80° 88° Fig. 2. States of India: Parts of physiographic divisions. 4 REC. ZOOL. SURV. INDIA. OCC. PAPER No. 202 IVERS OF N-E INDIA o 80·5 BUR M A N W~--+--~E s BAY OF BENGAL b~ ., Fig. 3. Ri vcrs in North-east India. MITRA: Ecology and biogeography of Odonala with special reference
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