A note on Stilt-legged Flies (Diptera: Micropezidae) with the First Record of Mimegralla albimana (Doleschall, 1856) from Sunderban Biosphere Reserve, India

Bulganin Mitra; P. Parui; Sankarsan Roy; Olive Biswas; Udipta Chakraborti

2015 Volume 2 Issue 2

A note on Stilt-legged Flies (Diptera: Micropezidae) with the First Record of Mimegralla albimana (Doleschall, 1856) from Sunderban Biosphere Reserve, India

Bulganin Mitra, P. Parui, Sankarsan Roy, Olive Biswas, Udipta Chakraborti

Abstract

This present communication reports Mimegralla albimana (Doleschall, 1856), a dipteran species under family Micropezidae, for first time from the Indian part of Sunderban and this species is also the first representative of the family Micropezidae from the Sunderban Mangrove ecosystem.

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