Crickets and Household Pests

by Manisha R Awate, T V Sathe

ISBN: 9789383129591
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Imprint : DAYA
Year : 2021
Price : Rs. 6495.00
Biblio : viii+171p., plts., 115 figs., tabls., ind., 23 cm

Author Profile

Dr. Sathe Tukaram Vithalrao is Professor and Head, Department of Zoology, Shiva University, Kolhapur. He has written 30 books and published 255 research papers in national and international Journals of repute.

About The Book

Household pests such as mosquitoes, sand flies, ratflea, housefly, eye flies, bed bugs, cockroaches, etc. play an important role in transmitting fatal diseases to humans and domestic animals. Similarly, other pests like carpet beetles, powdered post beetle, clothes moths, silverfishes, book louse, ants, etc. cause considerable losses to household properties. Hence, in the present text information is given on international status, distribution, identification, life cycle, hosts and epidemiologica

Table of Contents

"Preface 1 Cricket Diversity and Control (i) Introduction (ii) Review of Literature (iii) Material and Methods (iv) Diversity of Crickets Family: Gryllotalpidae Genus: Gryllotalpa Latreille Gryllotalpa indica sp.nov. Gryllotalpa vestigi sp.nov. Gryllotalpa shivajiensis sp.nov. Gryllotalpa micromi sp.nov. Family: Gryllidae Subfamily: Gryllinae Genus: Gryllus Linnaeus Gryllus ovali sp.nov. Gryllus mirroriquadri sp.nov. Gryllus indica sp.nov. Gryllus pentagoni sp.nov. Gryllus lanceolati sp.nov. 2.