National Academy of Agricultural Sciences (NAAS)
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PRINT ISSN : 2319-7692
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 |
A study was conducted to record the species composition, meteorological and zoogeographical aspects of horsefly fauna of Western ghats Belagavi division, Karnataka state, India from March 2019 to February 2020. A total of 912 flies were collected from 67 villages under 14 talukas in all the three seasons of the year. The study showed a total of 20 species of tabanids belonging to 5 genera of 3 subfamilies. The highest number of tabanid flies (55%) were collected from talukas covered by Sahyadri mountains with their habitats including moist deciduous, evergreen forests, followed by 34% flies were collected from talukas with habitats including plains, dry and moist deciduous forests, agricultural flatland and least number of flies (12%) were collected from talukas with their habitat including coastline with evergreen and moist deciduous forests. Tabanus was the most dominant genus recorded in all the three zones. The highest number of flies were collected from Khanapur taluka. The highest number of species were recorded from Hukkeri taluka. In the present study, investigated the effects of meteorological and zoogeographical factors on the abundance of tabanids in the Western ghats region Karnataka, India.
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