National Academy of Agricultural Sciences (NAAS)
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Online ISSN : 2319-7706 Issues : 12 per year Publisher : Excellent Publishers Email : editorijcmas@gmail.com / submit@ijcmas.com Editor-in-chief: Dr.M.Prakash Index Copernicus ICV 2018: 95.39 NAAS RATING 2020: 5.38 |
The main aims of the present study were documentation of species, habitats and other ecological behaviors of Mantids in district Navsari, Gujarat, India during August 2016 - July 2017. Total 21 species of mantids belongs to 15 genera, from five families were recorded from different localities of NAU campus. Among them 21 species were belongs to five families viz., Mantidae (12), Hymenopodidae (2), Liturgusidae (1) Empusidae (3) and Toxoderidae (3). In general, the mantids were active in all kind of habitat including pond ecosystem, paddy ecosystem, grassland ecosystem, mango ecosystem and banana ecosystem. Considering the abundance of mantids total 21 species recorded in present study viz. Mantis religiosa (Burmeister, 1838) Hierodula viridis (Burmeister, 1838), Humbertiella ceylonica (Saussure, 1869), Archimantis latistyla (Serville, 1838), Hierodula venosa (Oliver,1792), Aethalochroa ashmoliana (West-wood, 1841), Statilia maculata (Zheng,1987), Schizocephala bicornis (Linnaeus,1758), Hierodula membranacea (Burmeister,1838), Tenodora sinensis (Nurseryman, 1962), Hierodula keraleness (Vyjayandi, 1995), Creobroter apicalis (West-wood, 1889), Hierodula coarctata (Saussure, 1869), Empusa guttula (Thunberg, 1815), Hierodula grandis (Saussure, 1869), Aethalochroa insignis (Wood-Mason, 1878), Toxoderopsis spinigera (Wood-Mason, 1889), Ameles fasciipennis (Kaltenbach, 1963), Gongylus gongylodes (Linnaeus, 1758), Gongylus trachelophyllus (Burmeister, 1838) and Tropiodo guttatipennies (Stal, 1877).
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