Mycena Indica, A New Species from Southern India

We here describe Sitana attenboroughii sp. nov., a new species of fan-throated lizard of the genus Sitana Cuvier, 1829 from coastal Kerala in southern India. The new species morphologically is closer to Sitana visiri Deepak, 2016 (in Deepak et al. 2016a), however, differs in having higher numbers of ventral scales and a comparatively short but richly colored dewlap. Genetically the new species shows affinity to Sitana marudhamneydhal Deepak, Khandekar, Varma & Chaitanya, 2016 from which it differs in an uncorrected pairwise sequence divergence of 2.2% for a fragment of mitochondrial Nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide dehydrogenase (NADH) subunit 2 gene.

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A new species of the hermit crab genus Diogenes Dana, 1851 (Decapoda: Anomura: Diogenidae) from southern India

Zootaxa ◽

10.11646/zootaxa.4504.2.5 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 4504 (2) ◽

pp. 243

Author(s):

TOMOYUKI KOMAI ◽

RAVEENDHIRAN RAVINESH ◽

APPUKUTTANNAIR BIJU KUMAR

Keyword(s):

New Species ◽

Hermit Crab ◽

Southern India ◽

Distal Spine ◽

Callyspongia Diffusa ◽

Different Color ◽

A New Species

A new species of the hermit crab genus Diogenes Dana, 1851, D. spongicola, is described and illustrated on the basis of material collected from two locations off southern India. It appears close to D. takedai Rahayu, 2012 among about 70 congeners, but easily differentiated from the latter by the spinulose anterolateral margins of the shield, the article 2 of the antennal peduncle armed only with one distal spine, the longer, spinose antennal acicle, the absence of prominent spines on the ventrolateral margin of the cheliped meri, and the different color of the cheliped palm. Specimens of the new species were all collected from cavities of a callyspongiid sponge Callyspongia diffusa (Ridley, 1884), suggesting a possible association between the hermit crab and sponge.

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A new species of Acanthormius (Braconidae: Lysiterminae) reared as a gregarious parasitoid of psychid caterpillar (Lepidoptera: Psychidae) from India

Zootaxa ◽

10.11646/zootaxa.4388.3.8 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 4388 (3) ◽

pp. 425 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

ANKITA GUPTA ◽

DONALD L. J. QUICKE

Keyword(s):

New Species ◽

Southern India ◽

Larval Parasitoid ◽

Gregarious Parasitoid ◽

Bagworm Moth ◽

A New Species ◽

Host Associations

Acanthormius indicus Gupta & Quicke sp. nov. is described and illustrated. It is a gregarious larval parasitoid of an unidentified bagworm moth caterpillar (Lepidoptera: Psychidae) from southern India. The biology and host associations of members of subfamily Lysiterminae are also discussed.

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A new species of the hermit crab genus Diogenes (Crustacea: Decapoda: Anomura: Diogenidae) from southern India

Zootaxa ◽

10.11646/zootaxa.3613.4.5 ◽

2013 ◽

Vol 3613 (4) ◽

pp. 380-390 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

TOMOYUKI KOMAI ◽

REMA RESHMI ◽

APPUKUTTANNAIR BIJU KUMAR

Keyword(s):

New Species ◽

Hermit Crab ◽

Species Group ◽

Southern India ◽

Kerala State ◽

A New Species

A new species of the hermit crab genus Diogenes Dana, 1851 (Diogenidae), D. canaliculatus, is described and illustrated on the basis of material from off the Kerala State, southern India. It is referred to the D. edwardsii (De Haan, 1849) species group, and compared with D. bicristimanus Alcock, 1905, D. fasciatus Rahayu & Forest, 1995, D. laevicarpus Rahayu, 1996 and D. moosai Rahayu & Forest, 1995. The characteristically sculptured left chela and the unarmed dorsal margins of the propodi of the second and third pereopods distinguish the new species from these congeners.

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A new species of Sparsorythus Sroka & Soldán, 2008 (Ephemeroptera: Tricorythidae) from Eastern Ghats of Southern India

Zootaxa ◽

10.11646/zootaxa.4915.2.3 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 4915 (2) ◽

pp. 237-245

Author(s):

T SIVARUBAN ◽

PANDIARAJAN SRINIVASAN ◽

S BARATHY ◽

M BERNATH ROSI ◽

RAJASEKARAN ISACK

Keyword(s):

New Species ◽

Tamil Nadu ◽

Abdominal Segment ◽

Southern India ◽

Eastern Ghats ◽

Femur Length ◽

Male And Female ◽

Length Width ◽

A New Species

A new mayfly species, Sparsorythus sivaramakrishnani sp. nov. from the stream of Pullian cholai, Thuraiyur, Namakkal district, Tamil Nadu, India is described based on male and female nymphs. Sparsorythus sivaramakrishnani sp. nov. differs from the closely related S. gracilis by the shape of the left prostheca, the number of bristle-like processes at base of left prostheca, the ratio and shape of right prostheca, the ratio of femur length: width, the size of the female nymph, the mesonotum overlapping in fifth abdominal segment of the female, and by the shape of hypopharyngeal lingua.

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Dario urops, a new species of badid fish from the Western Ghats, southern India (Teleostei: Percomorpha: Badidae)

Zootaxa ◽

10.11646/zootaxa.3348.1.5 ◽

2012 ◽

Vol 3348 (1) ◽

pp. 63 ◽

Cited By ~ 4

Author(s):

RALF BRITZ ◽

ANVAR ALI ◽

SIBY PHILIP

Keyword(s):

New Species ◽

Western Ghats ◽

Southern India ◽

Caudal Peduncle ◽

Small Stream ◽

Dorsal Fin ◽

Anterior Dorsal ◽

The Western Ghats ◽

A New Species ◽

Fin Spines

Dario urops, new species, is described from a small stream of the Barapole tributary of Valapattanam River in southern Karna-taka and from Wayanad District, Kerala. It can be distinguished from its congeners by the presence of a conspicuous blackblotch on the caudal peduncle and a horizontal suborbital stripe, by the anterior dorsal fin lappets in males not being produced beyond fin spines, and by its vertebral count.

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A new species of rock-dwelling Cnemaspis Strauch, 1887 (Squamata: Gekkonidae) from Tamil Nadu, southern India

Zootaxa ◽

10.11646/zootaxa.4571.3.6 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 4571 (3) ◽

pp. 383

Author(s):

AKSHAY KHANDEKAR

Keyword(s):

New Species ◽

Endemic Species ◽

Western Ghats ◽

Tamil Nadu ◽

Southern India ◽

Peninsular India ◽

Tamil Nadu State ◽

The Rich ◽

The Western Ghats ◽

A New Species

A new species of the gekkonid genus Cnemaspis is described based on a series of nine specimens from near Sankari in Salem district, Tamil Nadu state, southern India. The new species is diagnosable by the following suite of characters: a small-sized Cnemaspis (adult snout to vent length less than 33 mm); heterogeneous dorsal pholidosis consisting of weakly keeled granular scales intermixed with large strongly keeled, conical tubercles, 9–11 rows of dorsal tubercles, 12–17 tubercles in paravertebral rows; spine-like scales absent on flank, 17–20 lamellae under digit IV of pes. Males with 4–6 femoral pores on each thigh, separated on either side by eight poreless scales from four precloacal pores; precloacal pores separated medially by a single poreless scale; two single dorsal ocelli on occiput and between forelimb insertions, two pairs of ocelli on either side just anterior and posterior to forelimb insertions. Cnemaspis agarwali sp. nov. is the fifth endemic species of Cnemaspis from peninsular India outside the Western Ghats and highlights the rich and unique diversity of this understudied region.

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A new species ofStethorus Weise (Coleoptera-Coccinellidae), feeding on arecanut palm mites in Kerala, southern India

Entomophaga ◽

10.1007/bf02373202 ◽

1961 ◽

Vol 6 (1) ◽

pp. 35-38 ◽

Cited By ~ 7

Author(s):

A. P. Kapur

Keyword(s):

New Species ◽

Southern India ◽

A New Species ◽

Arecanut Palm

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First record of the spider genus Wolongia Zhu, Kim & Song, 1997 from India with the description of a new species (Araneae, Tetragnathidae)

Zootaxa ◽

10.11646/zootaxa.4407.1.13 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 4407 (1) ◽

pp. 145

Author(s):

JOBI J. MALAMEL ◽

KARUNNAPPILLI SHAMSUDHEEN NAFIN ◽

PRADEEP M. SANKARAN ◽

POTHALIL A. SEBASTIAN

Keyword(s):

New Species ◽

Yunnan Province ◽

Southwest China ◽

First Record ◽

Southern India ◽

Nominal Species ◽

Ramsar Convention ◽

International Importance ◽

Kerala State ◽

A New Species

Zhu et al. (1997) erected the tetragnathid genus Wolongia to accommodate Wolongia guoi Zhu, Kim & Song, 1997 and Wolongia wangi Zhu, Kim & Song, 1997 collected from the Sichuan and Shaanxi Provinces in China. In 2009, Ping et al. described Wolongia odontodes from the Gaoligong Mountains and remained with a nominal representation after the erection of the genus. This situation was somewhat rectified by Jin-long Wan & Xian-jin Peng (2013) reporting seven new species from the Gaoligong Mountains (Yunnan Province, southwest China). The genus currently with ten nominal species; three are known only from females, while seven are from both sexes (World Spider Catalog 2017). During our survey in Pathiramanal Island we found an undescribed Wolongia species. This is one of the most diverse areas of the Kerala state of Southern India, situated in the Vembanad Lake, a Ramsar Convention (2013) site (wetland of international importance). In this paper, we describe this new species and provide the first report of Wolongia from India.

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