23 articles in this issue
Ana Soto-Vivas, Sandra Enríquez, Ernesto Villacrés, Jazzmin Arrivillaga, Martín Hinojosa, Jonathan Liria
Four species of Triatominae (Hemiptera: Reduviidae) are reported in four localities in Ecuadorian Amazonia. Eratyrus mucronatus Stål, 1859, Rhodnius pictipes Stål, 1872 & Panstrongylus geniculatus (Latreille, 1811) in Napo Province, and Rhodnius rob... see more
Zoya Tyabji, Nitya Prakash Mohanty, Erina Young, Tasneem Khan
Sea kraits forage in water and return to land to digest their prey, mate, slough, and lay their eggs. The temporal terrestrial patterns in encounter rate and behaviour of two species of sea kraits Laticauda colubrina and L. laticaudata were studied ... see more
Rama Mishra, Khadga Basnet, Rajan Amin, Babu Ram Lamichhane
The Fishing Cat is a highly specialized and threatened felid, and its status is poorly known in the Terai region of Nepal. Systematic camera-trap surveys, comprising 868 camera-trap days in four survey blocks of 40km2 in Rapti, Reu and Narayani rive... see more
Shaheer Khan, Orus Ilyas
The Wild Boar Sus scrofa is omnivorous, serves as the prey base for large carnivores, performs the role of a natural scavenger, and is often involved in crop raiding. The species is included in Schedule V of the Indian Wildlife (Protection) Act, 197... see more
G. Parameswaran, R. Sivashankar
The composition and status of waterbirds in Perur-Sundakamuthur Lake, a wetland in Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, was studied from May 2014 to April 2016. This wetland is home to resident and local migrant birds throughout the year and is also used by winter mig... see more
Sangay Tshewang, Letro Letro
A checklist of herpetofauna in Jigme Singye Wangchuck National Park in central Bhutan based on field surveys and photographic records is presented. Twelve families, 30 genera, and 42 species of herpetofauna were recorded; 33 species from 24 genera a... see more
Elaine M. Cowan, Peter J. Cowan
The Dhofar governorate of Oman (‘Dhofar’) is largely desert with a mainly arid climate. It contains an Afrotropical escarpment region influenced by monsoon precipitation. We summarise published records of odonates for Dhofar, organised by four... see more
Bijaya Pant, Mukti Ram Paudel, Mukesh Babu Chand, Shreeti Pradhan, Bijaya Bahadur Malla, Bhakta Bahadur Raskoti
Orchidaceae is one of the largest and most diverse families of flowering plants, comprising more than 450 species that span 107 genera in Nepal. Since orchids are facing an extinction risk from various anthropogenic factors at the regional and globa... see more
Bhaskar Sarma, Prantik Sharma Baruah, Bhaben Tanti
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B. Usharani, A.J. Solomon Raju
Synedrella nodiflora (L.) Gaertn grows almost throughout the year if the soil is damp. It produces heterogamous capitula with female ray florets anthesing first day and bisexual disc florets anthesing on the next three consecutive days. Disc florets are d... see more
Bikramjit Sinha
This paper gives a brief review of the studies on zooplankton fauna of Arunachal Pradesh, the major shareholder of the eastern Himalaya biodiversity hotspot. Altogether, 66 species of zooplankton (45 Rotifera, 20 Cladocera, & one Copepoda) have been... see more
Jeruel Cabadonga Aguhob, Junaid N. Shah, Esmat Elfaki Mohammed Elhassan, Aisha Almurr Al Muhery, Mohamed Mustafa Eltayeb Mohamed, Juma Abdulla Saeed Mohammad Al Omairi, Hamad Hashim Mohammed Khalaf Albedwawi, Obaid Mohammed Salem Mohammed Al Bedwawi, Hassan Zain Alsharif, Afra Mahmood Mohammad Ali Haji
The Arabian Tahr Arabitragus jayakari is endemic to the Hajar Mountains of Oman and the United Arab Emirates in the southeast of the Arabian Peninsula and is categorized as Endangered on the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Lack of scientific re... see more
Dhavalkumar Vargiya, Anita Chakraborty
The Short-eared Owl Asio flammeus is a common to uncommon winter visitor to Gujarat. The species roosted in bushes of Prosopis juliflora in the grassland of Shiroda area, Odadar Village of Porbandar District. Communal roosts were identified by... see more
Rajaram Hindurao Atigre
Krishna is one of the main rivers of the Deccan Plateau. It begins its course in the Western Ghats. A large human population relies on the river Krishna for agricultural irrigation, watering livestock (cattle), fishing and other activities. The presence o... see more
Helen Colbachini, Rafael Caprioli Gutierrez, Cristiane Schilbach Pizzutto, Otto Bismarck Fazzano Gadig
Elasmobranchs present four clasper movements, which can be seen in different contexts from mating to no obvious reason. Three movements have been reported in Carcharias taurus and here the first occurrence of clasper flaring in this species is descr... see more
Jobin Mathew, Chinnu Ipe
A new species of Pericapritermes, P. travancorensis sp. nov. (Isoptera, Termitidae, Termitinae), is described from Kerala, India, based on the characters of the king, queen, imago, soldiers, and workers. Morphological measurements of the king, queen... see more
Derio Antonio Jiménez-López, Candelario Peralta-Carreta, Jonathan V. Solórzano, Gerardo Luis Cervantes-Jiménez, Marco Antonio Domínguez-Vázquez
This study presents an updated checklist of vascular epiphytes found in the highly-conserved mangrove forest surrounding El Cometa Lagoon inside Pantanos de Centla Biosphere Reserve, Mexico. In order to perform this task, 25 sampling units were esta... see more
Jatishwor Singh Irungbam, Meenakshi Jatishwor Irungbam
During our survey of the moth fauna at Tsirang, Sarpang, Dagana and Gelephu districts of Bhutan we recorded nine species of Lasiocampid moths. In the present paper, we report the records of two species, Kunugia siamka Zolotuhin, 2002 and Alompra roe... see more
Shakha Sharma, Neeraj Sharma
The present communication deals with the new nymphalid butterfly records from the state of Jammu and Kashmir. The sightings are based on the butterfly surveys conducted in different ecosystems of Jammu region in a span of two years. The paper calls for mo... see more
Umeshkumar L. Tiwari, V. K. Rawat
Genus Argostemma khasianum is added to the flora of the state of Arunachal Pradesh with lectotypification of the species name.
Avinash R. Gholave, Ravikiran S. Govekar, Vasanta I. Kahalkar, Milind M. Sardesai, Shrirang R. Yadav
Amorphophallus longiconnectivus Bogner and A. margaritifer (Roxb.) Kunth are reported for the state of Maharashtra. In addition to this the notes on variations in spadices of the species has also been provided.
Chandra Prakash Kuniyal, Bir Singh Negi
Strachey’s Chive Allium stracheyi is popularly known as Himalayan Seasoning Allium. This species generally grows in cold deserts and higher temperate & alpine zones in the western Himalaya. Dried aerial parts (foliage/flowers) of Chive are use... see more
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