History of entomology in India
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Beginning of Indian Entomology can be traced in 1758 when Systems Naturae was published. Its tenth edition by Carl Linnaeus contained the earliest record of Indian insects, mentioning 28 species. Fabricius, Edward Donovan, Gerard Koenig, Westwood and Hope are some notable entomologists during the period 1745-1922.
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Insects are known from the Vedic times as early as 1200-1000 B.C. as
recorded in the treatises of Charaka and Sushruta. Classification of ants, flies
and mosquitoes are to be found in Sushruta’s treatise ‘Sushruta samhita’, while
in ‘Charaka Samhita’ we find classification of bees. The term ‘Shatpada’ (six
legged insects) was coined by Amara Simha, some one thousand years before
the European naturalist Latrielle coined the term Hexapoda.
It was not until the early 17th century that major advances were made in
Entomology.
The first entomologist to make extensive collection of Indian insects was
J.C Fabricius. Beginning of Indian Entomology can be traced in 1758 when
Systems Naturae was published. Its tenth edition by Carl Linnaeus contained
the earliest record of Indian insects, mentioning 28 species. Fabricius, Edward
Donovan, Gerard Koenig, Westwood and Hope are some notable
entomologists during the period 1745-1922.
19th Century Entomologists were Annandale, Ernest Green, Maxwell
Lefroy and T.B Fletcher. The major volumes 'Indian Insect Life’ by Lefroy and
‘Some south Indian insects’ by Fletcher are even today works of references.
Many manuals on the fauna of British India appeared from 1864 and it was
Hampson who contributed first to that series by publishing four volumes on
moths of India.
Entomologists like T.V.Ramakrishna Ayyar, Y.Ramachandra Rao,
Richard Coleman., S.Pradhan, and M.S.Mani raised the status of Entomology
by considering Entomology as a special subject in the traditional and
agricultural universities.