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Aquatic insects are found abundantly and exhibits high diversity in fresh water aquatic ecosystems. They serve as food item for the vertebrate and invertebrate predators and thus play a significant role in aquatic ecosystem. Insects responded well to a wide range of environmental disturbances and thus often are employed as proxies for water quality. The present study was carried out at Tamasi Lake, situated in Bhadravati Taluka of Chandrapur district, Maharashtra which comes under Tribal area. The year round investigation was carried out to evaluate the diversity of aquatic insects for a period of one year from June 2022 to May 2023. The present investigation shows the presence of total 28 species of aquatic insects from 5 orders and 18 families. The rich and varied diversity of aquatic insects indicate the moderate environmental condition of freshwater ecosystem under study and functioning properly.
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Abhijna, U.G., Rateesh, R. & Kumar, A.B., (2013). Distribution and diversity of Aquatic insects of Vellayani lake in Kerala . Journal of Environmental Biology ,Vol.34, no.3, pp.605-611.
Choudhary, A. & Janakahi .(2015) . Diversity and distribution of Aquatic insect population in Lakha Banjara Lake, Sagar (M.P), India Journal of International Academic Research for Multidisciplinary, 3(5):367
Cibik,J., Beracko,P., Krno,I., Lanzos, T., Navara , T & Derka ,T., 2021. The taxonomical and functional diversity of three groups of aquatic insects in rheocrene karst springs are affected by different environmental factors. Limnologica , vol.91,pp.125913. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.limno.2021.125913
Gulati, P (2012). Handbook of Aquatic Insects, Biogreen Books Publication, New Delhi.
Gupta, M. & Paliwal, A. (2010). Role of aquatic insects of water quality in related to physico-chemical parameters in Yamuna river at District Firozabad(U.P). Advanced Biomedical Research 1(1):71-74.
Ishas,F. & Khan , A.(2013) . Aquatic biodiversity as an ecological indicators for water quality criteria of River Yamuna in Doon valley, Uttarakhand, India. World Journal of Fish and Marine Sciences 5(3): 322-334.
Kumar, A. (2014). Studies on qualitative and quantitative abundance of aquatic entomofauna in glacial fed mountainous Goriganga river of Kumaun Himalaya, Uttarakhand, India .International Research Journal of Environment Science, 3(4) :51-63.
Merritt, R.W, K.W. Cummins & M.B. Berg, (2008). An introduction to the aquatic insect of North America.4thed, pp:1158.
Mishra, S.K. (2007) . Insecta- Odonata. The Director(ed.). Fauna of Madhya Pradesh (Including Chhattisgarh).State Fauna series, 15(1). Kolkata: Zoological Survey of India . pp.245-272.
Sharma,S.,Joshi, V.,Kurde, S. & Singhvi , M.S. (2010). Biodiversity and abundance of benthic Macroinvertebrates community of Kishanpura lake, Indore (M.P) India. Researcher ,2(10). 57-67
Subramanian ,K.A. & Sivaramakrishnan K.G. (2007) . Aquatic insects of India –A Field Guide. Ashoka Trust for Ecology and Environment (ATREE) , Bangalore,India, pp.62.
Wahizatul AA, Luna, S H & Ahamed, A, (2011). Composition and distribution of aquatic insect communities in relation to water quality. Journal of Sustainability Science and Management, 6 (1): 148-155