First records of four species of webspinners (Insecta: Embioptera) from Chhattisgarh, India

By

Chandra, Kailash
Dawn, Prosenjit

Type

Article

Date of Publication

2014-12-9

Original Publication

Check list : journal of species lists and distribution

Volume

10

Series / Issue

Issue: 6

Pages

1565--1569

Subjects

Chhattisgarh , Embiidae , Embioptera , India , webspinners

Contributed by

Pensoft Publishers

Language

English

Published by

[São Paulo, Brazil] Luís Felipe Toledo 2005-

Identifiers

DOI: https://doi.org/10.15560/10.6.1565

 

Abstract

The present paper deals with the first taxonomic account on webspinners (Embioptera) of Chhattisgarh, India. Out of 32 species or subspecies known from India, four species, namely Oligotoma humbertiana (Saussure, 1896), Oligotoma saundersii (Westwood, 1837) and Oligotoma annandalei Kapur & Kripalani, 1957 (family Oligotomidae) and Pseudembia setosa Ross, 1950 (family Embiidae) are reported for the first time from Chhattisgarh.