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Journal of Threatened Taxa | www.threatenedtaxa.org | 26 December 2017 | 9(12): 11054–11059

Preliminary checklist of springtails (Arthropoda: Collembola) of Uttar Pradesh, India Ramesh Singh Yadav

ISSN 0974-7907 (Online) ISSN 0974-7893 (Print)

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Former Research Scholar, Department of Entomology & Agricultural Zoology, Institute of Agricultural Sciences, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh 221005 India Present Address: Assistant Teacher, Government School Dehariya, Zamania, Department of Basic Education, Ghazipur, Uttar Pradesh 232331, India [email protected]

Abstract: Collembola, the fauna of a hidden habitat, are symbols of soil health. A survey of Collembolan fauna in different habitats in different regions of Uttar Pradesh was carried out from 2008 to 2010. Thirty-seven species were captured belonging to 27 genera from eight subfamilies of eight different families. Thirteen species are first reports from India and from Uttar Pradesh. The subfamily Entomobryinae (27.03%) was dominant whereas the subfamily Isotminae had maximum diversity. Keywords: Collembola, checklist, India, Lepidocyrtus, soil health, Uttar Pradesh.

Collembola (Springtails) is one of the important fauna of phylum Arthropoda and presently considered as a separate class. They are very tiny but the most successful and abundant animal in the world. The body of Collembola is globose or tubular and divided into head, thorax and abdomen distinctly. The head bears a pair of four segmented antenna, ectognathous mouth parts within a pouch and one to several pairs of lateral ocelli, form an eye patch but these are often reduced in soil and cave dwelling species that are blind. Compound eyes are absent. They are primarily wingless fauna and abdomen is six segmented with three pregenital appendages, i.e., ventral tube or Collophore or glue peg, tenaculum or retinaculum and furcula or springing organ. Collophore

is a bilobed adhesive organ found on the first abdominal segment. Lubbock (1873) introduced the scientific name for springtails considering the ventral tube or Collophore to be the most characteristic feature of the group and specifically the Collembola. The retinaculum is present on the third abdominal sternite, to hold furcula. Furcula evolved through the basal fusion of a pair of appendages on the fourth abdominal segment, is the obvious feature of Collembola. The furca is well developed as an escape mechanism to avoid predators. Rusek (2002) mentioned that the first record of Collembola was made on 2 November 1672 from Czechoslovakia whereas; the first study of Collembola from India was made by Ritter (1911) and Imms (1912) Collembola have a very wide global distribution. They are abundant in every continent including Antarctica (Block 1984) and on newly fallen snow of the Himalaya at 7,742m altitude (Yosii 1966a). Singh & Singh (1975) and Yadav & Singh (2009) reported that they are micro soil arthropods, which together with mites, constitute an important component of soil mesofauna in almost all terrestrial ecosystems; Collembola are the second highest mesofauna after Acarina (mites). According to Maria (1989), Stork & Eggleton (1992), they are ideal for

DOI: http://doi.org/10.11609/jott.3260.9.12.11054-11059 | ZooBank: urn:lsid:zoobank.org:pub:9A282A5A-1065-4E4C-BAD7-3362156D85F4 Editor: G.P. Mandal, Zoological Survey of India, Kolkata, India.

Date of publication: 26 December 2017 (online & print)

Manuscript details: Ms # 3260 | Received 03 January 2017 | Final received 07 October 2017 | Finally accepted 12 December 2017 Citation: Yadav, R.S. (2017). Preliminary checklist of springtails (Arthropoda: Collembola) of Uttar Pradesh, India. Journal of Threatened Taxa 9(12): 11054–11059; http://doi.org/10.11609/jott.3260.9.12.11054-11059 Copyright: © Yadav 2017. Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. JoTT allows unrestricted use of this article in any medium, reproduction and distribution by providing adequate credit to the authors and the source of publication. Funding: None. Competing interests: The author declares no competing interests. Acknowledgements: I wish to extend our gratitude to the Head of the Department for providing necessary facilities. Thanks are also due to Prof. Janardan Singh, Chairman of my advisory committee and Dr. M. Raghuraman, Co-advisor of the research. The Author is very highly thankful to Dr. V.V. Ramamurthy (IARI) and Dr. S.K. Mitra (ZSI) for appreciation and technical support. Supports from Network Project on Insect Biosystematics are highly acknowledged.

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bio-indicator studies of environment due to their broad distribution and high abundance. An initial but notable ecological study of soil arthropods including Collembola was first made by Mukharji & Singh (1970) from Uttar Pradesh, India. Literature is very scattered regarding the contribution of this group except for some of the promising work by Mukherjee (1932), Choudhuri (1963), Mitra (1966), Yosii (1966b), Prabhoo (1971), Mitra (1975), Prabhoo & Muralidharan (1980), Mitra (1993), Hazra (1995), Mandal (2010, 2013, 2014). Mandal & Hazra (2002, 2004, 2009) have presented information from different parts of India. Literature dealing with taxonomy and ecology of Collembola is immense, nevertheless the Collembola reports from Uttar Pradesh (till date) are a very small fraction, except for the work on this group by Baijal (1955) and Mitra (1973). Tyagi & Baijal (1979) provided taxonomic information of Collembola for Uttar Pradesh, India. After a long gap on this group from Uttar Pradesh, recently, Yadav & Singh (2009), Raghuraman et al. (2010), Mandal & Suman (2015), and Santeshwari et al. (2015) presented very intensive information regarding explorations from Uttar Pradesh, India. In the present study, the author upholds recent workers classifying the Collembola as per Christiansen & Bellinger (1992). Keeping in view the above facts, the present work is aimed at finding out the diversity of Collembola for Uttar Pradesh, the largest state of northern India (Fig. 1) surrounded by Nepal and Uttarakhand to the north, Delhi and Haryana to the north-west, Rajasthan to the west, Madhya Pradesh to the south, Chhattisgarh and Jharkhand to the southeast and Bihar to the east. Materials and Methods The study sites located at different parts of Uttar Pradesh are given in Table 1. The investigations were carried out from January 2008 to March 2010. Collembola were collected by two methods­—through Aspirator and soil sampler. Thirty-six sites of 12 locations and samples were collected atleast two times from each site. In the field, Collembola litters were collected with the help of aspirator (Image 1), plastic tray and transparent sheet from litters of orchard and dry grasses. During collection, some amount of alcohol was used in the tray when beating the litters in order to prevent the insects from jumping. Thereafter, they were picked up with a fine brush and preserved in 70% alcohol mixed with some glycerin to avoid the loss from volatilization. Soil samples were also collected by a sampler of size 10x7.5x22.5 cm3. All the samplers’

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collections were made in the mornings and collected samples carried to the laboratory in polyethylene bags, which were punctured to avoid minimum mortality of the fauna. Samples were extracted through modified Tullgren’s funnel techniques (Image 1). Soil samples were put in separate funnels fitted with mesh in the lower part of the funnels, containing 70% alcohol and few drop of glycerol. During extraction, the samples were exposed to low intensity of light initially to give low heat for a period of 12 hours and later the samples were given more intensity of light and heat for full extraction with the help of illumination timer and light intensity controller. The specimens were sorted and separated under zoom stereomicroscope in petri dish from the vials. Examinations were made under Leica MZ 16 microscope and phase contrast microscope. The temporary mounting was prepared for identification and photography. Photographs were captured by Leica DFC290 camera mounted on Leica MZ16 microscope. Subsequently, they were preserved in 70% alcohol with a few drops of glycerol. All the materials were preserved in liquid preservation in leveled vials. Standard taxonomic keys by Gisin (1960) and Christiansen & Bellinger (1992) were followed for identification. Collected specimens are preserved in the laboratory of Insect Biosystematics, Department of Entomology and Agricultural Zoology, Institute of Agricultural Sciences, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, India. Results Collembola are a very diverse and abundant group of fauna. In published records by Janssens (2012) and Table 1. Details of survey locality Location/ Site

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Indian Institute of Vegetable Research (IIVR), Varanasi (India)

25.1844 N & 82.8344 E

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Taria, Varanasi (India)

25.2244 N & 82.9797 E

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Ramna, Varanasi (India)

25.2398 N & 83.0066 E

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Susuwahi, Varanasi (India)

25.2560 N & 82.9743 E

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Vegetable Research Farm, BHU, Varanasi (India)

25.2677 N & 82.9913 E

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Agricultural Research Farm, BHU, Varanasi (India)

25.2677 N & 82.9913 E

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Entomological Research Farm, BHU, Varanasi (India

25.2677 N & 82.9913 E

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Campus Road Sides of BHU, Varanasi (India)

25.2677 N & 82.9913 E

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Ghazipur, Uttar-Pradesh

25.6135 & 83.5070 E

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Campus AMU, Aligarh

27.9135 N & 78.0782 E

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Harduaganj, Aligarh

27.9451 & 78.1550 E

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Samneghat, River Bank of Ganges

27.9135 N & 78.0782 E

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Image 3. Entomobrya indica

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ISSN 0974-7907 (Online); ISSN 0974-7893 (Print) December 2017 | Vol. 9 | No. 12 | Pages: 10985–11104 Date of Publication: 26 December 2017 (Online & Print) DOI: 10.11609/jott.2017.9.12.10985-11104 www.threatenedtaxa.org Communications Nyctibatrachus mewasinghi, a new species of night frog (Amphibia: Nyctibatrachidae) from Western Ghats of Kerala, India -- Keerthi Krutha, Neelesh Dahanukar & Sanjay Molur, Pp. 10985– 10997 An interview-based survey to determine the conservation status of Softshell Turtles (Reptilia: Trionychidae) in the Irrawaddy Dolphin Protected Area, Myanmar -- Steven G. Platt, Tint Lwin, Naing Win, Htay Lin Aung, Kalyar Platt & Thomas R. Rainwater, Pp. 10998–11008 Notes on taxonomy and captive development of the Rattus andamanensis (Blyth, 1860) (Rodentia: Muridae) from southern Andamans, India -- S.S. Talmale & T. Bharathimeena, Pp. 11009–11015 Review and analysis of human and Mugger Crocodile conflict in Gujarat, India from 1960 to 2013 -- Raju Vyas & Colin Stevenson, Pp. 11016–11024 Status of conflict mitigation measures in Nilambur, Western Ghats of Kerala, India -- C.K. Rohini, T. Aravindan, K.S. Anoop Das & P.A. Vinayan, Pp. 11025–11032 Short Communications Notes on the taxonomy and distribution of two endemic and threatened dipterocarp trees from the Western Ghats of Kerala, India -- M.S. Sanil, V.B. Sreekumar, K.A. Sreejith, A.J. Robi & T.K. Nirmesh, Pp. 11033–11039 Phenology and seed germination of the Indian Screw Tree Helicteres isora L. (Malvales: Malvaceae) -- Mariappan Muthukumar, Thiruppathi Senthil Kumar & Mandali Venkateswara Rao, Pp. 11040–11044 Additions to the sea snail fauna (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Opisthobranchia) of Lakshadweep Islands, India -- B.K. Sneha Chandran, R. Ravinesh & A. Biju Kumar, Pp. 11045– 11053 Preliminary checklist of springtails (Arthropoda: Collembola) of Uttar Pradesh, India -- Ramesh Singh Yadav, Pp. 11054–11059 A new species of zygaenid moth Elcysma ziroensis (Lepidoptera: Zygaenidae: Chalcosiinae) from India -- Punyo Chada, Monsoon Jyoti Gogoi & James John Young, Pp. 11060–11066

Dragonflies and damselflies of University of North Bengal campus, West Bengal, India with new distribution record of Agriocnemis kalinga Nair & Subramanian, 2014 -- Aaratrik Pal, Pp. 11067–11073 A first record of the Bentfin Devil Ray Mobula thurstoni (Lloyd, 1908) (Myliobatiformes: Mobulidae) from the Indian EEZ of the Andaman Sea -- Swapnil Shivdas Shirke, M. Nashad, Monalisha Devi Sukham & H.D. Pradeep, Pp. 11074–11080 First records of the Indo-Pacific Finless Porpoise Neophocaena phocaenoides (G. Cuvier, 1829) (Cetartiodactyla: Phocoenidae) from Sri Lanka -- Ranil P. Nanayakkara, Thomas A. Jefferson & Sandaruwan Abayaratne, Pp. 11081–11084 Notes Largest fungal fruit body from India -- Manoj Kumar, Prahlad Singh Mehra, N.S.K. Harsh, Amit Pandey & Vijay Vardhan Pandey, Pp. 11085–11086 Ichthyofauna of Udayasamudram Reservoir in Nalgonda District, Telangana State, India -- Rachamalla Shyamsundar, Kante Krishna Prasad & Chelmala Srinivasulu, Pp. 11087–11094 First record of migratory Grey-necked Bunting Emberiza buchanani Blyth, 1844 (Aves: Passeriformes: Emberizidae) as a winter visitor in Tiruchirappalli District, Tamil Nadu, India -- T. Siva & P. Neelanarayanan, Pp. 11095–11096 New distribution records of Elegant Water Shrew Nectogale elegans Milne-Edwards, 1870 (Mammalia: Eulipotyphla: Soricidae) from the western Himalaya, Uttarakhand, India -- Aashna Sharma, Vandana Rajput, Vineet K. Dubey, Aavika Dhanda, Shagun Thakur, J.A. Johnson, S. Sathyakumar & K. Sivakumar, Pp. 11097–11099 The persistence of the Striped Hyena Hyaena hyaena Linnaeus, 1758 (Mammalia: Carnivora: Hyaenidae) as a predator of Olive Ridley Sea Turtle Lepidochelys olivacea Eschscholtz, 1829 (Reptilia: Testudines: Cheloniidae) eggs -- Divya Karnad, Pp. 11100–11102 Book Review Book review: A Photographic Guide -- Endemic Woody Plants of The Western Ghats -- Jis Sebastian, Pp. 11103–11104

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