Miliusa sahyadrica, a new species of Annonaceae from the Western Ghats, India

Phytotaxa ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 284 (3) ◽  
pp. 211 ◽  
Author(s):  
GOPALAPRABHU RAJKUMAR ◽  
MOHAN ALISTER ◽  
AHAMMED NAZARUDEEN ◽  
ALAGRAMAM GOVINDASAMY PANDURANGAN
Keyword(s):  
Papua New Guinea ◽  
Western Ghats ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Western Ghats Of India ◽  
The Family ◽  
Centres Of Diversity ◽  
Molecular Phylogenetic ◽  
Species Being ◽  
The Western Ghats ◽  
A New Species

Miliusa Leschenault ex A. de Candolle (1832: 213) is a Paleotropical genus in the family Annonaceae with about 60 species distributed mostly to the Austral-Asiatic region, ranging from India, Sri Lanka, Bhutan, Bangladesh, Myanmar, Thailand, Indonesia, Malay Islands, Philippines, Papua New Guinea to Australia and New Zealand (Mols & Keßler 2003,Chaowasku & Keßler 2013, Chaowasku et al. 2013). According to molecular phylogenetic analysis, the genus is placed in subfamily Malmeoideae, tribe Miliuseae (Chatrou et al. 2012). Thailand and India are considered as the centres of diversity for Miliusa with more than twenty species each (Mols & Keßler 2003, Chaowasku & Keßler 2013, Chaowasku et al. 2013, Turner 2015). A total of 23 species and one variety of the genus are so far recorded from India (Mitra 1993, Karthikeyan et al. 2009, Turner 2015, Page & Nerlekar 2016, Page et al. 2016, Josekutty et al. 2016, Karuppusamy & Richard 2016). Among these, 15 species and one variety are reported from the Western Ghats of India. Except for four species, namely M. indica Leschenault ex A. de Candolle (1832: 213), M. horsfieldii (Bennett 1840: 165) Pierre (1881: 38), M. tomentosa (Roxburgh: 1795: 31. t. 35.) Sinclair (1955: 378) and M. velutina (Dunal) Hooker & Thomson (1855: 151), all are endemic to that region (Nayar et al. 2014). As a whole, the genus is phytogeographically significant to Western Ghats with 71% of the species being endemics, which makes the genus more important from conservation point of view.

Habenaria sahyadrica (Orchidaceae, Orchideae) a new species from the Western Ghats (India) with critical notes on allied taxa

Phytotaxa ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 244 (2) ◽  
pp. 196 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pankaj Kumar ◽  
Konickal Mambetta Prabhukumar ◽  
Thankappan Kureekadu Nirmesh ◽  
Vadakkethil Balakrishnan Sreekumar ◽  
Vadakkoot Sankaran Hareesh ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
East Asia ◽  
Western Ghats ◽  
Central Africa ◽  
Western Ghats Of India ◽  
Centres Of Diversity ◽  
Large Genus ◽  
The Western Ghats ◽  
A New Species ◽  
Critical Notes

Habenaria Willdenow (1805: 544) is a large genus represented by approximately 848 species making it by far the largest in subfamily Orchidoideae (Cribb 2001, Kurzweil 2009, Govaerts et al. 2014, Batista et al. 2011), with centres of diversity in Brazil, southern and central Africa, and East Asia (Kurzweil & Weber 1992). In India, it is represented by 72 species, of which 36 are endemic (Misra 2007).  About 45 species of Habenaria are known to occur in the Western Ghats of India, of which 21 species are endemic (Jalal & Jayanthi 2012). In Kerala, 26 species were reported so far with 17 endemic (Sasidharan 2013).

First record of the myrmicine ant genus Syllophopsis Santschi, 1915 (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) from India with description of a new species

Zootaxa ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 4985 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
SHAHID ALI AKBAR ◽  
HIMENDER BHARTI ◽  
MARIUSZ KANTURSKI ◽  
AIJAZ AHMAD WACHKOO
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Western Ghats ◽  
National Park ◽  
Indian Subcontinent ◽  
First Record ◽  
Sem Analysis ◽  
Biodiversity Hotspot ◽  
Western Ghats Of India ◽  
The Western Ghats ◽  
A New Species

Here we describe and illustrate Syllophopsis peetersi sp. nov. from Silent Valley National Park, a biodiversity hotspot region of the Western Ghats of India. The discovery also marks a first native report of the genus from the Indian subcontinent. Scanning Electron Microscopy (SEM) analysis was carried out to elucidate the general morphology and sensilla of the new species. The new species is similar to congeners from Madagascar, but with larger differences from species that occur elsewhere.

A new record of the family Isonychiidae (Insecta: Ephemeroptera) from the Western Ghats, India with a description of new species

Zootaxa ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 4586 (1) ◽  
pp. 162
Author(s):  
M. VASANTH ◽  
C. SELVAKUMAR ◽  
K. A. SUBRAMANIAN ◽  
R. BABU ◽  
K. G. SIVARAMAKRISHNAN
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Western Ghats ◽  
New Record ◽  
Tamil Nadu ◽  
Abdominal Segment ◽  
Uniformly Convex ◽  
The Family ◽  
Lateral Margins ◽  
The Western Ghats ◽  
A New Species

A new species belonging to the subgenus Isonychia, of the genus Isonychia Eaton, 1871, is described based on larvae and imagoes collected from Moyar River, Nilgiri District, Tamil Nadu, India. The imagoes of I. moyarensis n. sp. can be distinguished from other described Oriental species of Isonychia (Isonychia) by the combination of characters: (i) forewing with rusty brown maculae in the costal, subcostal, and median areas; (ii) femur and tibia brown, fore leg pale, apices of tarsal segments brownish; (iii) males with distal angles of penes rounded, without serrations; (iv) second segment of gonostylus uniformly convex; and (v) sterna of tenth abdominal segment in female deeply cleft. Isonychia (Isonychia) moyarensis n. sp. can be distinguished in the larval stage from other known Oriental species by the following combination of characters: (i) abdominal terga II–IX with median dark brown maculae progressively larger with dark brown slanting streaks in lateral margins; (ii) trachea of abdominal gills I–VII unbranched; (iii) posterolateral projections on abdominal segments I–VII blunt and progressively longer than those of segments VIII–IX, sharp and distinct; and (iv) abdominal terga X pale yellow in anterior ⅓, and dark brown in the posterior ⅔. A key to the known larvae of Oriental species of Isonychia is also provided. 

A new species of Chlorophytum (Asparagaceae) from Madhya Pradesh, India

Phytotaxa ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 291 (2) ◽  
pp. 159
Author(s):  
MUJAFFAR SHAIKH ◽  
ARJUN PRASAD TIWARI ◽  
ARUN NIVRUTTI CHANDORE
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Western Ghats ◽  
Madhya Pradesh ◽  
Old World ◽  
Western Ghats Of India ◽  
Old World Tropics ◽  
The Western Ghats ◽  
A New Species

The genus Chlorophytum Ker Gawler (1808: 1071) is one of the major genera of family Asparagaceae, with about 190 species (Govaerts et al. 2015). It is distributed in the old world tropics, especially in Africa, Asia and Australia (Poulsen & Nordal 2005, Mabberley 2005). According to Malpure & Yadav (2009) the genus is represented by 17 species in India, of which 15 is occur in the Western Ghats. Recently, four more species of Chlorophytum have been described from Western Ghats of India: Chlorophytum belgaumense Chandore et al. (2012: 527), C. sharmae Adsul et al. (2014: 9503), C. palghatense K.M.P. Kumar & Adsul in Kumar et al. (2014: 282) and C. clivorum Mathew & George (2015: 379).

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

Zootaxa ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 4429 (1) ◽  
pp. 141
Author(s):  
RALF BRITZ ◽  
V.K. ANOOP ◽  
NEELESH DAHANUKAR
Keyword(s):  
Western Ghats ◽  
The Body ◽  
Western Ghats Of India ◽  
Tributary Stream ◽  
Black Blotch ◽  
Median Fins ◽  
The Western Ghats ◽  
A New Species ◽  
Small Tributary ◽  
Pelvic Fin

Dario neela, is described from a small tributary stream of the Kabini River in northern Kerala, India. It can be distinguished from congeners by the male colouration in life, which shows wide rims of iridescent blue in all median fins and the pelvic fin. It is further distinguished from all species of Dario, except D. urops by the number of abdominal vertebrae (14 vs. 11–13), and from all Dario species except D. urops and D. huli by the presence of a conspicuous black blotch on the caudal-fin base. Dario neela is distinguished from D. urops by the absence of the horizontal suborbital stripe and presence of a series of up to eight black bars on the body; and from D. huli by 27–28 vertebrae and 27 scales in a lateral row and the absence of teeth from hypobranchial 3. Dario neela is genetically divergent from both Western Ghats congeners in the mitochondrial CO1 gene, showing an uncorrected p-distance of 5.9% with D. urops and 13.1% to D. huli. 

A new species of the genus Thrips (Thysanoptera: Thripidae) from the Western Ghats of India

Zootaxa ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 4221 (4) ◽  
pp. 491
Author(s):  
R.R. RACHANA ◽  
R. VARATHARAJAN
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Sexual Dimorphism ◽  
Western Ghats ◽  
Tamil Nadu ◽  
Brownish Yellow ◽  
Hydrangea Macrophylla ◽  
Western Ghats Of India ◽  
The Western Ghats ◽  
A New Species

Thrips laurencei sp.n. is described from specimens collected on flowers of Hydrangea macrophylla in Western Ghats range of Tamil Nadu, India. This new species shows sexual dimorphism in colour, with the females brownish yellow with brown shadings but the males uniformly yellow.  

Two novel genera and one new species of treefrog (Anura: Rhacophoridae) highlight cryptic diversity in the Western Ghats of India

Zootaxa ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 3640 (2) ◽  
pp. 177-199 ◽  
Author(s):  
ROBIN KURIAN ABRAHAM ◽  
R. ALEXANDER PYRON ◽  
ANSIL B. R. ◽  
ARUN ZACHARIAH ◽  
ANIL ZACHARIAH
Keyword(s):  
Sri Lanka ◽  
Dna Sequences ◽  
Western Ghats ◽  
Reproductive Mode ◽  
Restricted Area ◽  
Western Ghats Of India ◽  
The Family ◽  
Rapid Pace ◽  
One New Species ◽  
The Western Ghats

Amphibian diversity in the Western Ghats-Sri Lanka biodiversity hotspot is extremely high, especially for such a geo-graphically restricted area. Frogs in particular dominate these assemblages, and the family Rhacophoridae is chief among these, with hundreds of endemic species. These taxa continue to be described at a rapid pace, and several groups have recently been found to represent unique evolutionary clades at the genus level. Here, we report DNA sequences, larval and breeding data for two species of rhacophorid treefrog (Polypedates bijui and a new, hitherto undescribed species). Re-markably, they represent unique, independent clades which form successive sister groups to the Pseudophilautus (Sri Lan-ka) + Raorchestes (India, China & Indochina) clades. We place these species into two new genera (Beddomixalus gen. nov. and Mercurana gen. nov.). Both of these genera exhibit a distinct reproductive mode among Rhacophoridae of pen-insular India and Sri Lanka, with explosive breeding and semiterrestrial, unprotected, non-pigmented eggs oviposited in seasonal swamp pools, which hatch into exotrophic, free-living aquatic tadpoles. Relationships and representation of re-productive modes in sister taxa within the larger clade into which these novel genera are placed, is also discussed. These results suggest that more undescribed taxa may remain to be discovered in South Asia, and the crucial importance of con-serving remaining viable habitats.

Chlorophytum belgaumense, a new species of Asparagaceae from the Western Ghats of India

Kew Bulletin ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 67 (3) ◽  
pp. 527-531 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. N. Chandore ◽  
N. V. Malpure ◽  
A. A. Adsul ◽  
S. R. Yadav
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Western Ghats ◽  
Western Ghats Of India ◽  
The Western Ghats ◽  
A New Species
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