Volume : V, Issue : VII, July - 2016

Addition to the mite fauna in Human habitation from South Bengal

Ananya Das, S. K. Gupta, N. Debnath

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 The present paper reports the occurrence of 111 species of mites belonging to 69 genera,27 families under 3 orders collected from a total of 40 samples representing 5 different habitats viz. stored products, house dust, bird nests, cattle sheds and roof gardens from 5 districts of South Bengal. Among the 5 habitats, cattle shed provided richest diversity both in respect of species and genera followed by stored product habitat and the minimum was bird nest which represented only 11 species. The family level diversity was also highest in case of cattle sheds followed by stored products and the minimum was in roof garden. There was not a single species which could be collected from all the 5 habitats though; of course, there was 1 species which represented 4 out of 5 habitats. Therefore, cattle sheds proved to be habitat showing highest diversity. The order Prostigmata represented highest number of species followed by Astigmata.

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Ananya Das, S.K. Gupta, N. Debnath Addition to the mite fauna in Human habitation from South Bengal International Journal of Scientific Research,Volume : 5 | Issue : 7|July 2016

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