{"title":"First report of Patridge Sundial Snail Architectonica perdix (Hinds, 1844) from Northern part of East Coast of India","authors":"P. Tudu, S. Balakrishnan","doi":"10.26515/RZSI/V118/I2/2018/123516","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.26515/RZSI/V118/I2/2018/123516","url":null,"abstract":"Architectonica perdix (Hinds, 1844); the Patridge sundial snail is reported first time from Digha coast of West Bengal state, which is also the first report from Northern part of East coast of India. This species is formerly reported from Tamil Nadu coast and Andaman and Nicobar Islands.","PeriodicalId":415799,"journal":{"name":"Records of the Zoological Survey of India","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-06-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114470863","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Record of sleeping aggregation of the solitary aculeate potter wasp Antepipona bipustulata (de Saussure, 1855) (Hymenoptera: Vespidae: Eumeninae) from India","authors":"K. Rajmohana, P. G. Kumar, A. Majumder","doi":"10.26515/RZSI/V118/I2/2018/123114","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.26515/RZSI/V118/I2/2018/123114","url":null,"abstract":"The sleeping aggregation and mandibular roosting behavior of Antepipona bipustulata (de Saussure 1855) (Hymenoptera: Vespidae: Eumeninae) is reported for the first time. The observation gains interest since the knowledge on the bionomics of Antepipona bipustulata is extremely sparse.","PeriodicalId":415799,"journal":{"name":"Records of the Zoological Survey of India","volume":"65 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-06-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122812297","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Insect Fauna associated with the Tea Ecosystem of North Bengal, India","authors":"B. Mitra, Suresh Kumar Shah, P. Mishra","doi":"10.26515/rzsi/v118/i2/2018/120289","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.26515/rzsi/v118/i2/2018/120289","url":null,"abstract":"Present communication reports 167 species belonging to 139 genera of 42 families under 6 orders of insects from the tea gardens of North Bengal. Of them, Lepidoptera shares maximum number of species (77), followed by Hemiptera (29), Diptera (24), Coleoptera (19), Odonata (12) and Orthoptera (06). Among them, 20 species of Lepidoptera, 05 species of Hemiptera, 05 species of Coeloptera and 03 species of Orthoptera are found as tea pests. Besides this, 01 species of Diptera and Odonata are found as predators of tea pest. In addition to this, 14 species of Hemiptera, 11 species of Coleoptera and 09 species of Lepidoptera reported as pests/borers of other crops and timber plants. In addition to this, 03 species of Hemiptera and 03 species of Diptera as predator and 16 species of Diptera as flower visitors/pollinators in other ecosystem are also found.","PeriodicalId":415799,"journal":{"name":"Records of the Zoological Survey of India","volume":"31 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-06-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116822654","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"First record of Gerres infasciatus Iwatsuki and Kimura 1998 (Perciformes: Gerreidae) from North-eastern coast of India","authors":"S. S. Mishra, S. Saren, Anwesha Sengupta","doi":"10.26515/RZSI/V118/I2/2018/119983","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.26515/RZSI/V118/I2/2018/119983","url":null,"abstract":"The present paper reports the occurrence of Gerres infasciatus (Perciformes: Gerreidae), the third species in the “G. filamentosus” complex, for the first time from coastal waters of Andhra Pradesh, Odisha and West Bengal states of India, Bay of Bengal. From India, this species was earlier known only from Chennai, Tamil Nadu. Their relationship within the complex is also discussed for correct identification.","PeriodicalId":415799,"journal":{"name":"Records of the Zoological Survey of India","volume":"275 2 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-06-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116850568","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Addition of a new species to the genus Plectrocnemia Stephens, 1836 (Trichoptera: Polycentropodidae) from Indian Himalaya","authors":"Manpreet Singh Pandher","doi":"10.26515/rzsi/v118/i2/2018/123533","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.26515/rzsi/v118/i2/2018/123533","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":415799,"journal":{"name":"Records of the Zoological Survey of India","volume":"27 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-06-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121065764","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"First report on occurrence of a rare fish, Keeltail Pomfret: Taractes rubescens (Jordan and Evermann, 1887) from Northern part of East coast of India","authors":"D. Ray, A. Mohapatra, S. R. Mohanty","doi":"10.26515/RZSI/V118/I2/2018/129067","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.26515/RZSI/V118/I2/2018/129067","url":null,"abstract":"Authors collected one specimen of Taractes rubescens (Jordan and Evermann, 1887) of 655 mm. from Digha Mohana, West Bengal and reported as first occurrence of this species from Northern part of east coast of India as well as from the West Bengal coast.","PeriodicalId":415799,"journal":{"name":"Records of the Zoological Survey of India","volume":"10 4","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-06-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134004221","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"New record of the genus Discoelius Latreille (Hymenoptera: Vespidae: Eumeninae) from Kerala","authors":"P. G. Kumar, P. M. Sureshan, P. Manju","doi":"10.26515/rzsi/v118/i2/2018/119058","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.26515/rzsi/v118/i2/2018/119058","url":null,"abstract":"The genus Discoelius is reported here for the first time from Kerala with the species, D. vasukii Pannure and Carpenter, 2017. Symbiotic association with mites is observed and a key to species of India and an updated checklist of Oriental species are also provided.","PeriodicalId":415799,"journal":{"name":"Records of the Zoological Survey of India","volume":"108 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-06-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116997641","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The genus Craspedophorus Hope, 1838 (Coleoptera: Carabidae: Panagaeinae) from Maharashtra, with a new state record","authors":"S. Manthen, V. D. Hegde","doi":"10.26515/RZSI/V118/I2/2018/123228","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.26515/RZSI/V118/I2/2018/123228","url":null,"abstract":"The genus Craspedophorus Hope, 1838 (Coleoptera: Carabidae: Panagaeinae) from Maharashtra, was studied from the collections of Western Regional Centre, Zoological Survey of India, Pune. The occurrence of the species C. angulatus (Fabricius, 1781) collected from different localities of Pune constitutes the new record from Maharashtra state. The distributional details of the other species recorded from Maharashtra were also provided.","PeriodicalId":415799,"journal":{"name":"Records of the Zoological Survey of India","volume":"46 2","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-06-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133617514","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Non-Native Chelonians In The National Zoological Collections Of Zoological Survey Of India","authors":"S. Kundu, Vikas Kumar, B. Murthy, K. Chandra","doi":"10.26515/RZSI/V118/I1/2018/123035","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.26515/RZSI/V118/I1/2018/123035","url":null,"abstract":"The native species is the biological assets of a nation, however the non-native species is the threat for indigenous taxa. Thus, before describing any native or non-native species, it is required to thoroughly check the collateral information. As of now, many non-native species from different faunal group were invaded into the native eco-system and reported from India. In this study, we represent the check-list of non-native turtles and tortoises stored in National Zoological Collections of Zoological Survey of India to assure their taxonomic rank and distribution pattern. The list is enriched with the registration numbers, most recent species name, collection localities, conservation status, and other taxonomic information. This comparative data of 35 non-native turtles not only useful in taxonomic research, but also helpful to recognize the invasive species from India and quarantine regulation.","PeriodicalId":415799,"journal":{"name":"Records of the Zoological Survey of India","volume":"30 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122462379","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Studies on Butterfly Diversity (Lepidoptera: Papilionoidea) from Punjab Agricultural University Campus, Ludhiana, Punjab, India","authors":"P. C. Pathania, H. K. Mangat, A. K. Sidhu","doi":"10.26515/RZSI/V118/I1/2018/121626","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.26515/RZSI/V118/I1/2018/121626","url":null,"abstract":"Thirty-three species referable to twenty-four genera belonging to five families, namely, Hesperiidae (1), Lycaenidae (6), Nymphalidae (14), Papilionidae (3) and Pieridae (9) from different localities of University campus were collected and identified. The details on their synonymy, material examined, and host distribution along with plants are provided. The photographs of the adults are also given.","PeriodicalId":415799,"journal":{"name":"Records of the Zoological Survey of India","volume":"15 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-05-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127893288","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}