1Department of Zoology, Lala Desh Bandhu Gupta Government College, Sector - 18, Panipat - 132 103, Haryana, India
Department of Zoology, School of Bioengineering and Biosciences, Lovely Professional University, Phagwara - 144 402, Punjab, India
*Corresponding authors’ E-mail: joydeep.dutta@lpu.co.in
Online published on 15 June, 2023.
Soil arthropods of different districts of Haryana were sampled monthly using the Berlese Tullgren method. Present findings indicated that soil arthropod abundance varied between months of sampling and between plants. Out of 500 soil arthropod samples collected, the presence of 40% collembolan, 30% acarina, 15% dipterans larvae, 10% araneae, and 5% thysanura was revealed. Soil organic matter and soil temperature both confirmed a significant-high-quality correlation with abundance, while soil moisture had a weak highquality correlation. The pH of the soil had a negative correlation with total number of arthropods.
Acarina, Collembolan, Dipterans, Haryana, Soil fauna
