Odonata (Insecta) diversity of Kuldiha Wildlife Sanctuary and its adjoining areas, Odisha, eastern India

Abstract

A study was carried out to assess the Odonata fauna of Kuldiha Wildlife Sanctuary, Odisha, eastern India from November 2012 to October 2013. During the study a total of 54 species of odonates including 37 species of dragonflies (Anisoptera) and 17 species of damselflies (Zygoptera) were recorded. Among the dragonflies, the family Libellulidae was well represented with 30 species whereas among the damselflies, Coenagrionidae was well represented with seven species. Overall, the odonate fauna of Kuldiha Wildlife Sanctuary accounted for 49.09% of the odonate species known from Odisha and 10.73% of India. Therefore, further long-term studies on these lesser-known insect fauna in Kuldiha Wildlife Sanctuary will be useful in understanding their status over time.

Diversity of Odonata (Insecta) in protected areas of Gujarat, India

“…Most of the Odonate inventories are either state specific or area specific. Inventory of some protected areas of India have been separately studied recently (Sethy and Siddiqi, 2007;Sahoo et al, 2013;Das et al, 2012Debata et al, 2013;Varghese et al, 2014;Boruah et al, 2015, Tiple andKoparde, 2015;Kannagi et al, 2016;Singh et al, 2017). In Gujarat state, information about the odonate fauna of only six protected areas is available to some extent; the available information refers to Blackbuck National Park, Velavadar and Thol Bird Sanctuary (Mokaria, 2015); Vansda National Park and Purna Wildlife Sanctuary ; Khijadiya Bird Sanctuary (Mokaria et al, 2017); Nalsarovar Bird Sanctuary (Rathod andParasharya, 2018, Mokaria andJethva, 2018).…”

A review on odonate diversity and habitat in India

“…Chlorocyphidae (2 species), and Chlorocyphidae (3 species each). (Subrat Debata et al, 2018) [7] . During the study, 72 species of odonate from eight families were recorded, three of which were new records for the Vidarbha region.…”

“…Among the Anisoptera, the Libellulidae family dominated with 15 species, followed by Aeshnidae (1) and Gomphidae (1). Among the Zygoptera, Coenagrionidae (7) was the dominant family, followed by Lestidae (2), Euphaeidae (1), Synlestidae (1), and Platycnemididae (1). Diplocodes trivialis (Libellulidae) was the most dominant Anisoptera and Ischnura Aurora (Coenagrionidae) was the most common Zygoptera among the 29 species recorded.…”

An Updated List of Odonata Species from Athgarh Forest Division, Odisha, Eastern India (Insecta: Odonata)

“…Worldwide, 6256 species in 686 genera of odonates have been reported, of which India known to represent 488 species, 27 subspecies in 152 genera under 18 families (Subramanian & Babu, 2017). Some of the noticeable works on Odonata fauna of Odisha were carried out by Laidlaw (1915), Fraser and Dover (1922), Srivastava and Das (1987), Prasad and Ghosh (1988), Mitra (2000Mitra ( , 2002, Sethy and Siddiqui (2007), Das et al (2010Das et al ( , 2012, Nair (2011), Debata et al (2013), Sajan and Mohapatra (2013), Kalita et al (2014), Nair and Subramanian (2014), Payra et al (2014Payra et al ( , 2019, Boruah et al (2015), Palita et al (2016), Debata and Swain (2018). These studies contributed signifi cant information on the status and distribution of Odonata species in diff erent parts of Odisha. The present paper reports a detailed survey and updated list of dragonfl ies and damselfl ies from Athgarh Forest Division, with newly recorded species from Odisha state, India.…”