History of entomology in India| Fundamentals of entomology class-1| Entomology class| English

This is an introduction class...
This class defines the brief history of entomology in India...
1758- the beginning of the modern era of Indian Entomology
Carl Linnaeus’s “Systema Naturae” earliest record of 12 species of Indian insects in 10th edition
1767 - 1779- J. G. Koenig
During the 18th century collected insects from the Coromandel area and Southern Peninsular India
Published a special account of the termites of Thanjavur District and
Red cotton bug - Dysdercus koenigi.
1782 - Dr. Kerr published on account of lac insect

1785- Asiatic Society of Bengal started in Calcutta
1791- Dr. J. Anderson issued a monograph on Cochineal scale insects
1800- Buchanan - Wrote on the cultivation of lac in India and on sericulture in some parts of South India
1875- Foundation of the “Indian Museum” at Calcutta
1883- “Bombay Natural History Society” was started more scientific attention - Journal of the Bombay Natural History
1883- Commencement of “Fauna of British India” series - editor W.T. Blandford
1893- Rothney - Indian Ants
The earliest record of biological pest control in India
White ants attack on stationery items checked by red ants
1901 Lionel de Niceville - first entomologist to GOI
1903 Professor Maxwell Lefroy succeeded Niceville
Professor Lefroy became the first Imperial Entomologist
1906 ‘Indian Insect Pests’
1909 ‘Indian Insect Life’
Subsequently, State Governments also took up entomological work
Madras, Punjab, and Uttar Pradesh appointed - first State Government Entomologists in 1912, 1919, and 1922 respectively
1912 - Plant Quarantine Act
1914 - Destructive Insects and Pests Act
1914 - T. B. Fletcher - First Government Entomologist of Madras State
Some South Indian Insects
1916 - Indian Museum was formed as the Zoological Survey of India
1925 - Indian Lac Research Institute
1934 - Hem Singh Pruthi - succeeded Fletcher
‘Entomological Society of India’ in 1938 - First President Afzal Hussain
1939 - Locust Warning Organisation – established
1940 - Dr. T. V. Ramakrishna Ayyar
"Handbook of Economic Entomology for South India"
1946 - ‘Directorate of Plant Protection, Quarantine, and Storage’ (DPPQS) of GOI started
1963 - H. S. Pruthi ‘Textbook of Agricultural Entomology’
1968 - Dr. M. S. Mani's "General Entomology"
1968 - ‘Central Insecticide Act’
came into force from 1st January 1971.
1969 Dr. Pradhan's "Insect Pests of Crops"
1969 T. N. Ananthakrishnan ‘The monograph on Indian Thysanoptera’
1975 - A book: Elements of Economic Entomology by B. Vasantharaj David and T. Kumarasamy
1976 -A book: General and Applied Entomology by K. K. Nayar, T. V. Ramakrishna Ayyar and B. Vasantharaj David
1983 - A book: Agricultural Entomology and Pest Control by Dr. S. Pradhan
1993 - Establishment of NCIPM at New Delhi
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