A premier repository of insect biodiversity in India with over 3,00,000 pinned specimens representing 20296 authentically identified species.
The National Forest Insect Collection at Forest Research Institute, Dehradun is the largest and most comprehensive collection of forest insect specimens in the Indian sub-continent. Established in 1858, it supports research, taxonomy, education and biodiversity conservation.
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NFIC has been digitized where all details of the taxonomic classification of a species is given. Specimen related information like country, state, district, locality, date of collection, collected by, host records etc are also entered in the database.
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The NFIC is fairly well represented with about 10,748 species of Coleoptera order, followed by Lepidoptera (3770 species), Hymenoptera (1858 species), Hemiptera (1490 species), Isoptera (856 species), Diptera (648 species)
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NFIC has a large collection of larvae of the order Lepidoptera, Coleoptera, Isoptera and other soft bodies insects. Larval collection is stored species wise in small tubes which in turn are kept immersered in bigger jars filled with alcohol.
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