Found on J.E farm, Marunji, Pune, courtesy of Ashok Captain, 1994.
MOTHS & THEIR LARVAE
Tussar Silk Moth
Luna Moth
Owl Moth
Hummingbird Hawk Moth
Death’s Head Moth
7 Spotted Moth
Bagworm
Carpet Worm
PRAYING MANTIDS / STICK INSECTS
Schizocephala bicornis
Standard Green
Basalt Runner
Bark Mantis ( Humbertiella sp. )
Grass node Mantis
Orchid Mantis ( Gongylus gongylodes )
Stick Insect
GRASSHOPPERS:
Diamond-shaped basalt grasshopper.
Dry-grass/ green grasshopper.
Hooded Locust ( Teratodes monticollis)
Painted Grasshopper ( Poecilocerus pictus )
Standard Cricket ( Gryllus sp. )
Aquatic long-tailed Cricket
MOSQUITOES:
Aedes egyptii
Anopheles sp.
Culex sp ?
BUGS ETC:
Water Scorpion – thin. (Ranatra sp)
Water Scorpion. (Laccotrephes sp.)
Water skater. ( gerris sp)
Water Measurer (Hydrometra sp.)
Back Swimmer
Black & White Assassin Bug
Cluster Stink Bug
Red Cotton-stainer bug
Elongated Assassin Bug
Spit Bug
Bed Bug
Yellow Aphid
Standard Mango Hopper
Tree Hopper (thorny backed)
Flea
FLIES
Fruit-Fly (Drosophila sp )
House-Fly (Musca domestica)
Bluebottle
Red Eye-Fly
Robber-Fly
False Scorpion-Fly
Eye-fly (Siphonella sp)
Hover-Fly (Family Syrphidae)
Horse-Fly (Tabanus sp)
ANTS & TERMITES
Crematogaster sp
‘Plastic bag’ ants.
Harvester ants
Makoda black ants
Long black army ants
Small black non-biting ants
Tiny red ants
Nest building ants
Mound termites
Under rock Termites
BEES & WASPS
Apis florea
Apis dorsata
Apis indica.
Carpenter bee ( Xylocopa sp)
Potters wasp (orange)
Spider-hunter was
Velvet ‘ant’ wasp
Cuckoo wasp
Braconid wasp
Blue plug-filling wasp
Hornet
BEETLES:
Rhinoceros beetle
Palm Weevil
Standard dung roller
Darkling beetle
6-spotted ground beetle (Anthia sexguttata)
‘Phenol’ squirting tiger beetle
Banded Blister beetle
Ladybird
Longhorn beetle
Tortoise beetle
Jewel beetle
Small Jewel beetle
Whirlygig beetle
Rove beetle
Black sluggish beetle
ASSORTED:
Damselfly
Dragonfly
Ant lion
Earwig
Web spinners (Embilids)
Common cockroach
Field cockroach
Lacewing (green)
Leaf miner
OTHER ARTHROPODS:
Red Velvet mite
Soft tick
Hard tick
Red mites on geckos, grasshoppers
Daddy long legs – spider
Leaf web spider
Common Four-leg (Argiopes anasuja )
Social web spider
Funnel web spider
Tunnel web spider
Sheet web spider
Wolf spider
Green lynx (peucetia viridana)
Brown lynx (Oxyopes rufisternum)
‘Orange widow’ spider
Common ‘two-tail’ spider (Hersilia sp)
‘Rocky crab spider with reflect eyes
Zebra jumper
‘Origami’ bum spider
Crab
Isopod
Common Millipede
Box – cross section millipede
Scutigera
Soil centipede (Geophilomorph)
Centipede (purple & black)
Centipede (grey with pink head)
Solifuge (Galeodes sp)
Scorpion (Mesobuthus tumulus tumulus)
Scorpion (Mesobuthus pachyurus)