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Volume 10 Number 6 Year 2018

19 articles in this issue 

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Agro-biodiversity Hotspots of India

 

Julio C. Dalponte, Herson S. Lima, Stuart Klorfine, Nelton C. da Luz

The Hoary Fox Lycalopex vetulus, is a small omnivore-insectivore canid inhabiting open environments/areas of the Brazilian savannah, whose spatial organization and territoriality is still unknown.  Space use and social organization of two breeding pa... see more

Pags. 11703 - 11709  

C. K. Rohini, T. Aravindan, K.S. Anoop Das, P. A. Vinayan

Conflict with elephants and subsequent economic losses negatively affect residents’ tolerance towards wild elephants.  It is important to understand people’s attitude towards wildlife, especially Asian Elephants with an endangered status.  A que... see more

Pags. 11710 - 11716  

Renuka Malhotra, Neena Singla

The present study was conducted to determine the diet of Spotted Owlet Athene brama.  Analysis of 200 regurgitated pellets collected from eight different locations in Punjab (India) determined average weight, length, breadth and thickness to be 1.0g,... see more

Pags. 11717 - 11724  

L. Arul Pragasan, M. Madesh

University campuses play a significant role in the conservation of avifaunal diversity, but there are very few studies on birds of such local biodiversity hotspots in India.  Here, we document the patterns of abundance and species diversity of birds ... see more

Pags. 11725 - 11731  

Sarah Viana, Mark W. Lisher

An immature female specimen of rough shark was collected south of Reunion Island in the Madagascar Basin in 2009 aboard R/V Dr. Fridtjof Nansen, representing the first official record of the family Oxynotidae in the western Indian Ocean.  The specime... see more

Pags. 11732 - 11742  

Divakar K. Mesta, Ganesh R. Hegde

Forests of the Western---- Ghats are well known for their evergreenness and high endemism.  The present study carried out in the Sharavathi River Basin in the central Western Ghats of India is to find the relationship between forest evergreenness and... see more

Pags. 11743 - 11752  

Aseesh Pandey, Hemant K. Badola

Rhododendron falconeri Hook.f. [= Azalea falconeri (Hook.f.) Kuntze] is a potential candidate for conservation in Sikkim State due to its threatened status and startling features especially during the flowering period.  We studied the status and habi... see more

Pags. 11753 - 11759  

Mark Everard

The central area of the Coromandel Coast, southeastern India, has been subject to a very long history of human habitation and land use change, substantially reducing the coverage of native forest.  There are polarised views about definitive character... see more

Pags. 11760 - 11769  

Subrat Debata, Swetashree Purohit, Anirban Mahata, Sudheer Kumar Jena, Sharat Kumar Palita

A biodiversity survey was conducted in Koraput District of southern Odisha between August 2014 and July 2017.  During the survey, occurrence of Mugger or Marsh Crocodile Crocodylus palustris was ascertained from five localities in a stretch of 23km o... see more

Pags. 11770 - 11774  

Sailendra Dewan, Bhoj Kumar Acharya, Sudeep Ghatani

This study reports the recent sighting of Small Woodbrown Lethe nicetella from Khangchendzonga National Park in West Sikkim District, India.  It was originally described by de Nicéville (1887) based on the collection of males and one female by Otto M... see more

Pags. 11775 - 11779  

Tarun Karmakar, R. Nitin, Vivek Sarkar, Sarika Baidya, Subhajit Mazumder, V. K. Chandrasekharan, Rudraprasad Das, G.S. Girish Kumar, Swapnil Lokhande, Joyce Veino, Lightson Veino, Rakoveine Veino, Zeeshan Mirza, Rajesh V. Sanap, Bimal Sarkar, Krushnamegh Kunte

Eastern Himalaya and northeastern India are part of two global biodiversity hotspots, yet the critical butterfly-plant associations and early stages of most butterfly species in this region are poorly recorded.  We have reported early stages and larv... see more

Pags. 11780 - 11799  

C. Selvakumar, K. G. Sivaramakrishnan, T. Kubendran, Kailash Chandra

The present study deals with diagnostic characters, diversity, distribution and status of seven species belonging to four genera of Teloganodidae from southern India.  Six of them are endemic to the Western Ghats as is the genus Indoganodes Selvakuma... see more

Pags. 11800 - 11805  

M. Kamalakannan, Tauseef Hamid Dar, C. Venkatraman

Durga Das’s leaf-nosed bat Hipposideros durgadasi Khajuria, 1970 is one of the endemic bats in India and was known only from Jabalpur district of Madhya Pradesh and Kolar district of Karnataka. Upon careful examination of the external morphology, craniode... see more

Pags. 11806 - 11811  

P.R. Shashank, Balázs Benedek

The noctuid species, Owadaglaea elongata Hreblay & Ronkay, 1998 was found in Eastern Himalayan region and is reported for the first time from India. The adults male and female genitalia of the species are illustrated with new distributional range. 

Pags. 11812 - 11814  

Bhawana Kapkoti Negi, Ravindra K. Joshi

Larval food preferences and various life cycle stages of Pieris brassicae nepalensis, a white butterfly of family pieridae was observed on Tropaeolum majus, nasturtiun, the Indian Cress an orange coloured, garden ornamental plant, in district Almora, Uttr... see more

Pags. 11815 - 11817  

Vikas Pandey, Ganesh Thiruchitrambalam, M. Savurirajan, Raj Kiran Lakra, Jawed Equbal, Kunal Satyam, P. Shanmukha Sainath, Rokkarukala Samson

In the present article we provide a detailed account on the occurrence of Wedge Sea Hare Dolabella auricularia, from two different locations (Hut Bay and Burmanallah) of Andaman Islands.  This species has been reported by Rao (2003) from Andamans but... see more

Pags. 11818 - 11821  

L. Rasingam, J. Swamy, M. Sankara Rao

Ipomoea clarkei Hook.f. is an endemic species to Maharashtra state is reported here as a new addition to the Flora of Eastern Ghats from Nagarjuna Sagar Srisailam Tiger Reserve, India. The detail description, notes, distributional map and colour... see more

Pags. 11827 - 11829