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Select Brachycera Families (Diptera) in Jammu and Kashmir State

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Biodiversity of the Himalaya: Jammu and Kashmir State

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The chapter presents an inventory of select dipteran families Bombyliidae (bee flies), Conopidae (thick-headed flies), Dryomyzidae (Dryomyzid flies), Megamerinidae (Megamerinid flies), Stratiomyidae (soldier flies), Syrphidae (hover flies), and Ulidiidae (picture-winged flies) recorded from Jammu and Kashmir State. Altogether 107 valid species have been reported from the State. Family Syrphidae is the most diverse with 88 species grouped in 33 genera followed by Bombyliidae with 7 species in 6 genera. Conopidae represents 6 species belonging to 4 genera, while Stratiomyidae is represented by 3 species placed in 3 genera. Dryomyzidae, Megamerinidae, and Ulidiidae each are represented by a single species. The inventory can serve as a baseline data for undertaking future studies on dipteran fauna in Jammu and Kashmir.

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Financial assistance to the first author rendered by the University Grants Commission, Government of India, New Delhi, under the D.S. Kothari Postdoctoral Fellowship (No. F.4-2/2006 (BSR)/BL/13-14/0148), is gratefully acknowledged. We thank our colleague Amir Maqbool for photographing dipteran specimens.

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  1. Department of Zoology, Government Degree College, Shopian, Jammu and Kashmir, India

    Aijaz Ahmad Wachkoo

  2. Division of Plant Protection, Department of Entomology, Central Institute of Temperate Horticulture, Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir, India

    Shahid Ali Akbar

  3. Department of Zoology, University of Kashmir, Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir, India

    Ghulam Mustafa Shah & Ulfat Jan

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  1. Department of Botany, University of Kashmir, Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir, India

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  2. Centre for Biodiversity and Taxonomy, Department of Botany, University of Kashmir, Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir, India

    Anzar A. Khuroo

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Wachkoo, A.A., Akbar, S.A., Shah, G.M., Jan, U. (2020). Select Brachycera Families (Diptera) in Jammu and Kashmir State. In: Dar, G., Khuroo, A. (eds) Biodiversity of the Himalaya: Jammu and Kashmir State . Topics in Biodiversity and Conservation, vol 18. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-32-9174-4_29

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