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Volume 9 Number 10 Year 2017

15 articles in this issue 

Ahmed Boug, M. Zafar-ul Islam, Toshitaka Iwamoto, Akio Mori, Akihiro Yamane, Amy L. Schreier

The Hamadryas Baboon is the only nonhuman primate to inhabit the Arabian Peninsula.  In Saudi Arabia, Hamadryas Baboons are known to rely on both human and natural plant foods.  We examined the relationship between artificial food supply and nat... see more

Pags. 10741 - 10756  

A.J. Solomon Raju, K. Venkata Ramana

Rhynchosia cana is a perennial erect sub-shrub.  It flowers during November-January with peak flowering in December.  The flowers are hermaphroditic, nectariferous, self-compatible and display explosive pollination mechanism adapted for pollinat... see more

Pags. 10757 - 10770  

Maria Thereza Manhães Tavares, Ana Paula Madeira Di Beneditto

The feeding habits and behaviour of adult specimens of Bagre bagre (Linnaeus, 1766) and Genidens barbus (Lacepède, 1803), both targets of commercial fisheries in coastal southeastern Brazil, were evaluated through stomach content analysis.  These cat... see more

Pags. 10771 - 10775  

Elaine M. Cowan, Peter J. Cowan

Oman is largely a desert country with a mainly arid climate.  We summarise published records of Odonata (Insecta) for northern and central Oman, present our photographic records of the same there for 50 sites and give an apparent-status statement for... see more

Pags. 10776 - 10791  

Balasaheb V. Sarode, Nikhil U. Joshi, Swapnil S. Boyane, Subodh S. Gaikwad, Pratik P. Pansare, Hemant V. Ghate

Dicranocephalus lateralis (Signoret), 1879, a bug from the family Stenocephalidae, is briefly redescribed with colour and scanning electron microscopy (SEM) illustrations of general morphology, including details of male and female genitalia, metathoracic ... see more

Pags. 10792 - 10803  

Anoop P. Balan, S. Harikrishnan

A study on the flora of Indian Cardamom Research Institute campus, Myladumpara was carried out during 2012–2015 and a total of 515 taxa were collected during this study. The indigenous or naturalized flora is represented by 392 taxa in 303 genera under 94... see more

Pags. 10804 - 10822  

Vikram Aditya, Thyagarajan Ganesh

Papikonda National Park covering an area of 1,012km2 holds high conservation value as the only national park in the geographically vast northern Eastern Ghats.  The tropical moist deciduous forests support species assemblages characteristic of the Ea... see more

Pags. 10823 - 10830  

Muhammad Asghar Hassan, Imran Bodlah, Zafar Iqbal, Rubina Jabeen

Based on collected specimens from the Narowal, Rawalpindi and Jhelum districts of (Punjab Province) Pakistan, three species were recognised in two genera, under the subfamily Stratiomyinae (Diptera: Stratiomyidae).  Odontomyia ochropa Thomson, 1869, ... see more

Pags. 10831 - 10834  

Sreetama Bhadra, Maumita Bandyopadhyay

In this correspondence, the distribution of a population of Amomum kingii Baker, a Critically Endangered species of Zingiberaceae, is reported from Darjeeling District, West Bengal, India.  Previously, this plant was described only from Sikkim, India... see more

Pags. 10835 - 10838  

G. Manikandan, R. Ramasubbu

The genus Garcinia comprises c. 35 species in India many of which are endemic and economically important with immense medicinal properties.  The two species viz., Garcinia imberti and G. travancorica are lesser-known endemic medium-sized straight-ste... see more

Pags. 10839 - 10845  

G. Prasad, P. Rajan, N. Bhavadas

Ex situ conservation by vegetative propagation was successfully established in the endemic rare balsam species Impatiens anaimudica, I. elegans, I. disotis and I. phoenicea of the Western Ghats.  The experiment was done in an open environmental nurse... see more

Pags. 10846 - 10849  

Arockianathan Samson, Balasundaram Ramakrishnan, Palanisamy Santhoshkumar, Sivaraj Karthick

A total of 45 sightings of 57 individual Shaheen Falcons were recorded from 2014–2016 from different locations in the Nilgiris mountain range, and eight nests were located on separate rocky cliffs.  Most of the nests (n= 6) were situated at elevation... see more

Pags. 10850 - 10852  

J. Praveenraj, R. Kiruba-Sankar, Lohith Kumar, J. Raymond Jani Angel, S. Dam Roy

Redigobius oyensi (de Beaufort, 1913), a freshwater Data Deficient goby, is reported for the first time from Car Nicobar Island, Andaman & Nicobar archipelago. A short note on its habitat and co-occurring species are discussed in this study.

Pags. 10853 - 10855  

Shakha Sharma, Neeraj Sharma

The Himalayan state of Jammu and Kashmir, owing to variety of habitats, different climatic regimes and a wide range of altitude offers conducive habitats to butterflies ranging from low level hills of Shiwaliks to Trans-Himalayan landscapes of Ladakh thro... see more

Pags. 10856 - 10859