Checklist of Arthropods

Found on J.E farm, Marunji, Pune, courtesy of Ashok Captain, 1994.

MOTHS & THEIR LARVAE

1. Tussar Silk Moth

2. Luna Moth

3. Owl Moth

4. Hummingbird Hawk Moth

5. Death’s Head Moth

6. 7 Spotted Moth

7. Bagworm

8. Carpet Worm

PRAYING MANTIDS / STICK INSECTS

1. Schizocephala bicornis

2. Standard Green

3. Basalt Runner

4. Bark Mantis ( Humbertiella sp. )

5. Grass node Mantis

6. Orchid Mantis ( Gongylus gongylodes )

7. Stick Insect

GRASSHOPPERS:

1. Diamond-shaped basalt grasshopper.

2. Dry-grass/ green grasshopper.

3. Hooded Locust ( Teratodes monticollis)

4. Painted Grasshopper ( Poecilocerus pictus )

5. Standard Cricket ( Gryllus sp. )

6. Aquatic long-tailed Cricket

MOSQUITOES:

1. Aedes egyptii

2. Anopheles sp.

3. Culex sp ?

BUGS ETC:

1. Water Scorpion – thin. (Ranatra sp)

2. Water Scorpion. (Laccotrephes sp.)

3. Water skater. ( gerris sp)

4. Water Measurer (Hydrometra sp.)

5. Back Swimmer

6. Black & White Assassin Bug

7. Cluster Stink Bug

8. Red Cotton-stainer bug

9. Elongated Assassin Bug

10. Spit Bug

11. Bed Bug

12. Yellow Aphid

13. Standard Mango Hopper

14. Tree Hopper (thorny backed)

15. Flea

FLIES

1. Fruit-Fly (Drosophila sp )

2. House-Fly (Musca domestica)

3. Bluebottle

4. Red Eye-Fly

5. Robber-Fly

6. False Scorpion-Fly

7. Eye-fly (Siphonella sp)

8. Hover-Fly (Family Syrphidae)

9. Horse-Fly (Tabanus sp)

ANTS & TERMITES

1. Crematogaster sp

2. ‘Plastic bag’ ants.

3. Harvester ants

4. Makoda black ants

5. Long black army ants

6. Small black non-biting ants

7. Tiny red ants

8. Nest building ants

9. Mound termites

10. Under rock Termites

BEES & WASPS

1. Apis florea

2. Apis dorsata

3. Apis indica.

4. Carpenter bee ( Xylocopa sp)

5. Potters wasp (orange)

6. Spider-hunter was

7. Velvet ‘ant’ wasp

8. Cuckoo wasp

9. Braconid wasp

10. Blue plug-filling wasp

11. Hornet

BEETLES:

1. Rhinoceros beetle

2. Palm Weevil

3. Standard dung roller

4. Darkling beetle

5. 6-spotted ground beetle (Anthia sexguttata)

6. ‘Phenol’ squirting tiger beetle

7. Banded Blister beetle

8. Ladybird

9. Longhorn beetle

10. Tortoise beetle

11. Jewel beetle

12. Small Jewel beetle

13. Whirlygig beetle

14. Rove beetle

15. Black sluggish beetle

ASSORTED:

1. Damselfly

2. Dragonfly

3. Ant lion

4. Earwig

5. Web spinners (Embilids)

6. Common cockroach

7. Field cockroach

8. Lacewing (green)

9. Leaf miner

OTHER ARTHROPODS:

1. Red Velvet mite

2. Soft tick

3. Hard tick

4. Red mites on geckos, grasshoppers

5. Daddy long legs – spider

6. Leaf web spider

7. Common Four-leg (Argiopes anasuja )

8. Social web spider

9. Funnel web spider

10. Tunnel web spider

11. Sheet web spider

12. Wolf spider

13. Green lynx (peucetia viridana)

14. Brown lynx (Oxyopes rufisternum)

15. ‘Orange widow’ spider

16. Common ‘two-tail’ spider (Hersilia sp)

17. ‘Rocky crab spider with reflect eyes

18. Zebra jumper

19. ‘Origami’ bum spider

20. Crab

21. Isopod

22. Common Millipede

23. Box – cross section millipede

24. Scutigera

25. Soil centipede (Geophilomorph)

26. Centipede (purple & black)

27. Centipede (grey with pink head)

28. Solifuge (Galeodes sp)

29. Scorpion (Mesobuthus tumulus tumulus)

30. Scorpion (Mesobuthus pachyurus)