Ant fauna of Potohar Plateau, Punjab - Pakistan

ISBN-13: 9783659150913 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 64 str.

Muhammad Umair;Muhammad Naeem;Ahmed Zia

Opis

Potohar plateau (Punjab) of Pakistan comes under Punjab province and western parts of Azad Jammu & Kashmir, thus representing an Oriental distribution of insect species with traces of Palearctic fauna. It is spread over an area of about 15,830 sq.km having a latitudinal range of 32 30' - 34 N and longitudinal range of 71 30' -74 E The study was carried out to explore ant fauna of this important region of Pakistan. It comes up with a record of 21 species of ants with variable distribution pattern and habitat preferences."

O autorze

The research was done by Muhammad Umair (in Picture) as his Master s research on Ants of Rawalpindi & Islamabad, carried out under kind supervision of Dr.Muhammad Naeem. Additional information regarding distribution of collected species in Potohar plateau is added up by Dr Ahmed Zia, based on specimens housed at National Insect Museum, Islamabad