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Kailash Chandra

  • Biodiversity Journal, 8 (3): 819-826

    Sunil Kumar Gupta & Kailash Chandra
    A new genus (Orthoptera Acrididae Acridinae) and three species of short-horned grasshoppers from India

    ABSTRACT
    A new genus Keshava n. gen. (Orthoptera) of the subfamily Acridinae (type species Keshava shishodensis n. sp.) with three new species are described from Chhattisgarh, India. Taxonomical notes are provided.

  • Biodiversity Journal, 8 (2): 739-748

    Sunil Kumar Gupta & Kailash Chandra
    A Taxonomic study of the Pygmygrasshopper (Orthoptera Tetrigidae) from India with description of a new species

    ABSTRACT
    A new species of genus Coptotettix Bolivar, 1887, C. magedhensis n. sp. (Orthoptera Tetrigidae), is described from Jagdalpur, Chhattisgarh, India. Also studied with 19 species belonging to 7 genera under two subfamilies Scelimeninae and Tetriginae under family Tetrigidae.

  • Biodiversity Journal, 3 (2): 099-106

    Kailash Chandra & Devanshu Gupta
    First report on five species of genus Onthophagus Latreille, 1802 (Coleoptera, Scarabaeidae) from Madhya Pradesh, India, and their description of external male genitalia

    ABSTRACT
    Onthophagus (Onthophagus) duporti Boucomont, 1914, O. (O.) mopsus (Fabricius, 1792), O. (O.) orissanus Arrow, 1931, O. (O.) truncaticornis (Schaller, 1783) and O. (Colobonthophagus) paliceps Arrow, 1931 are recorded for the first time from Madhya Pradesh (India) with their external male genitalia diagnosed for the first time. A checklist pertaining to Madhya Pradesh including 34 species of Onthophagus distributed in six subgenera is also provided.

  • Biodiversity Journal, 2 (4): 209-212

    Kailash Chandra & E. Eyarin Jehamalar
    New records of Gerromorpha, Leptopodomorpha and Nepomorpha (Heteroptera, Insecta) from Madhya Pradesh, India

    ABSTRACT
    Four species of aquatic Heteroptera Gerris nepalensis Distant, 1910, Mesovelia horvathi Lundblad, 1934, Valleriola cicindeloides Distant, 1908, and Anisops kuroiwae Matsumura, 1915 belonging to four families and three infraorders namely Gerromorpha, Leptopodomorpha and Nepomorpha are newly recorded for the state of Madhya Pradesh. The diagnosis and distribution data of all these four species are provided here.