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Pages in category "Insects of India" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 415 total. This list may not reflect recent changes.
Patanga succincta, the Bombay locust, is a species of locust found in India and southeast Asia. Usually a solitary insect, only in India has it has exhibited swarming behaviour . The last plague of this locust was in that country between 1901 and 1908 and there have not been any swarms since 1927.
Nearly 70% of the seeds in Indian flying fox guano are of the banyan tree, a keystone species in Indian ecosystems. [16] Although initially thought to be strictly frugivorous, it has been observed deliberately eating insects and leaves. The Indian flying fox also eats flowers, seed pods, bark, cones, and twigs.
Therea petiveriana, variously called the desert cockroach, seven-spotted cockroach, domino cockroach, or Indian domino cockroach, is a species of crepuscular cockroach found in southern India. They are members of a basal group within the cockroaches.
Carausius morosus [1] (the 'common', 'Indian' or 'laboratory' stick insect) is a species of Phasmatodea (phasmid) often kept as pets by schools and individuals. Culture stocks originate from a collection from Tamil Nadu, India. Like the majority of the Phasmatodea, C. morosus are nocturnal.
As far as is known, all Indian Caecilians are oviparous i.e. they lay eggs and have a free-living, aquatic larval stage except Gegeneophis seshachari. The smallest Indian caecilian is about 142 mm (5.6 in) in length (Gegeneophis krishni) and the longest is 545 mm (21.5 in) (Ichthyophis malabarensis). As per the available information, most ...
This forms part of the full List of butterflies of India (Nymphalidae) which itself forms part of the complete List of butterflies of India. There are 20 species spanning nine genera which are to be found in Indian limits. However, detailed lepidopterological investigations in the north east of India may locate additional or new species.
Common banded demon. This is a list of the butterflies of India belonging to the subfamily Hesperiinae of the family Hesperiidae and an index to the species articles. This forms part of the full list of butterflies of India (Hesperiidae) which itself is part of the complete list of butterflies of India.