DIPTERA

Mitra, Bulganin, Shah, Suresh Kumar & Mishra, Purnendu, 2018, Insect Fauna associated with the Tea Ecosystem of North Bengal, India, Records of the Zoological Survey of India 118 (2), pp. 178-178 : 178-

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.26515/rzsi/v118/i2/2018/120289
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Order DIPTERA

The Diptera are commonly known as “True flies” and include many familiar insects such as mosquitoes, flies (black flies, fruit flies, blow flies, house flies etc.), midges (biting, non-biting), gnats (fungus, root), keds, bots etc. This diversity of names denotes the importance of the group and reflects the range of organisms in the order. Diptera exploit most of the available ecological niches in most of the biological roles, e.g., saprophages (many), commensals (some Scatopsidae , Chironomidae and Phoridae ), predators (many), parasites (many), symbionts (some Chironomidae and algae) and scavengers.

24 species under 23 genera of (08) families of Diptera were reported from the tea gardens of North Bengal ( Table 5). Of them, the family Syrphidae shares maximum number of species (09), followed by Asilidae (04), Bombyllidae (02), Calliphoridae (02), Rhiniidae (02),

Muscidae View in CoL (02) and Sarcophagidae View in CoL (02) and Tipulidae View in CoL (01). Shah and Mitra (2015) reports Microstyllum pseudoanantakrishnanii Joseph and Parui as the predator of the moths from the tea gardens of North Bengal (**). Das et al. (2010) confirmed 54 species of predators of insect pests from tea gardens of northern West Bengal, of which a single dipteran species Ischiodon scutellaris View in CoL (**) as a predator (maggot stage) of tea pest ( Table 5).