Biodiversity of insects in the tropical moist deciduous forestlands of Kanha National Park, Madhya Pradesh

Abstract

The present study describes the incidence and diversity of insects in naturally occurring moist deciduous forests of Kanha National Park, Madhya Pradesh based on sampling from 150 sites for one year in 2016. This is the first ever systematic study on the insect diversity of this deciduous forest area recording the occurrence of a total of 52 insect species belonging to order Orthoptera found to be the most dominant represented by 28 species, followed by Isoptera with 16 species and least found Neuroptera with 8 species.