A new species of Cyclogomphus Selys, 1854 (Insecta: Odonata: Gomphidae) from the Western Ghats, India with comments on the status of Cyclogomphus vesiculosus Selys, 1873

Zootaxa ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 4656 (3) ◽  
pp. 515-524
Author(s):  
PARAG RANGNEKAR ◽  
OMKAR DHARWADKAR ◽  
KALESH SADASIVAN ◽  
K.A. SUBRAMANIAN

A new species of Cyclogomphus Selys, 1854 is described from the Western Ghats of India based on male and female specimens collected from Goa and Kerala states. The new species differs from all the known species of Cyclogomphus in the shape of the anal appendages as well as the thoracic and abdominal markings. We also provide here an updated key to the Cyclogomphus species and comment on the status of Cyclogomphus vesiculosus Selys, 1873. 

Zootaxa ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 4985 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
SHAHID ALI AKBAR ◽  
HIMENDER BHARTI ◽  
MARIUSZ KANTURSKI ◽  
AIJAZ AHMAD WACHKOO

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.


Phytotaxa ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 291 (2) ◽  
pp. 159
Author(s):  
MUJAFFAR SHAIKH ◽  
ARJUN PRASAD TIWARI ◽  
ARUN NIVRUTTI CHANDORE

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).


Zootaxa ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 4221 (4) ◽  
pp. 491
Author(s):  
R.R. RACHANA ◽  
R. VARATHARAJAN

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.  


Kew Bulletin ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 67 (3) ◽  
pp. 527-531 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. N. Chandore ◽  
N. V. Malpure ◽  
A. A. Adsul ◽  
S. R. Yadav

2021 ◽  
Vol 63 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 165-170
Author(s):  
C. N. Manju ◽  
B. Prajitha ◽  
R. Prakashkumar ◽  
W. Z. Ma

A new species similar to Bryocrumia vivicolor, the only known species in the genus Bryocrumia, is described as Bryocrumia malabarica spec. nova from the Malabar Wildlife Sanctuary in the Western Ghats of Kerala in Peninsular India. It resembles Homalia in external appearance and was collected in a rheophytic habitat along a stream channel in the evergreen forest. The new species is characterised by closely arranged leaves with distinct tricostate, ovate-rounded to truncate leaves, upper margin of leaf rounded with fine serrations and an inconspicuous central strand in stem cross section.


Zootaxa ◽  
2009 ◽  
Vol 2203 (1) ◽  
pp. 59-64
Author(s):  
AMBALAPARAMBIL V. SUDHIKUMAR ◽  
RUDY JOCQUÉ ◽  
POTHALIL A. SEBASTIAN

Suffasia keralaensis, a new species in the spider family Zodariidae from the Western Ghats in India is described. It can be diagnosed from other members of the genus by oval spermathecae in the female and by the presence of three cymbial pits and long curved embolus with pointed tip of the male palp. A diagnostic key to both male and female species so far reported of the genus Suffasia is provided.


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