The riparian Odonate insect diversity of the midstream Chalakudy River at six locations assessed from February 2018 to January 2019 has revealed the occurrence of 25 species of odonates. Among them,10 species are dragonflies ...
Sphecoid wasps, superfamily Apoidea, series Spheciformes with 9706 species in the world come under 318 genera. The life histories of Spheciformes include hunting strategies and solitary to communal nesting to eusociality. ...
Migration of five species of butterflies viz., Appias albina darada C. & R. Felder, A. wardii Moore, A. indra shiva winhoe, Cepora nadina remba Moore and Graphium sarpedon teredon Felder were recorded during February 2000 ...
Roby, TJ; Jose, Joyce; Vijayakumaran Nair, P(Indian Academy of Science, 2018-04-25)
The vegetation of Myristica swamp forests in Kulathupuzha, southern Kerala, India, was examined with reference to floristic composition, structure and diversity. Quadrates of 100*10 m were laid inside (17) and outside the ...
We update the distribution of the little known Captain's Wood Snake (Xylophis captaini) in the Western Ghats, based on new observations and collation of the literature. The Maximum Entropy (MaxEnt) algorithm was used to ...
Kryptoglanis shajii was recently described from a public well in Kerala, India. Its systematic position among cat- fishes has remained unresolved partly due to lack of morphological information. We present here a detailed ...
The species abundance distribution (SAD) utilizes all the information gathered in a community and is the most complete mathematical description of the data. Myristica swamp forests are an endemic, highly fragmented ecosystem, ...
Genetic variation in the casein loci of Mus musculus (8 different strains) and Mus spretus was examined as restriction fragment length variants (RFLVs) using 5 restriction enzymes, BamHI, SftI, EcoRI, XbaI and HindIII. No ...
Silva, Edinaldo N dos Santos; Kakkassery, Francy K; Maas, Sibylle; Dumont, Henri J(Springer, 1994-08)
Calanoid copepods, belonging to the new genus and species Keraladiaptomus rangareddyi, were collected from temporary ponds in Kerala State, India. The new genus belongs to the family Diaptomidae, subfamily Diaptominae. It ...
Fifteen species of monogonont Rotifera are recorded from India for the first time. These are Lecane acanthinula (Hauer), L. aspasia Myers, L. monostyla (Daday), L. ruttneri (Hauer), L. simonneae Segers, Lepadella costatoides ...