ISSN 0974-7907 (Online) ISSN 0974-7893 (Print) January 2015 Vol. 7 | No. 1 Pages: 6739–6842 Taxa Journal of Threatened OPEN ACCESS www.threatenedtaxa.org Date of Publication: 26 January 2015 (Online & Print) DOI: 10.11609/JoTT.26jan15.6739-6842 ISSN 0974-7907 (Online); ISSN 0974-7893 (Print) Published by Wildlife Information Liaison Development Society Typeset and printed at Zoo Outreach Organization 96, Kumudham Nagar, Vilankurichi Road, Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu 641035, India Ph: +91 422 2665298, 2665101, 2665450; Fax: +91 422 2665472 Email: [email protected], [email protected] www.threatenedtaxa.org EDITORS Founder & Chief Editor Dr. Sanjay Molur, Coimbatore, India Managing Editor Mr. B. Ravichandran, Coimbatore, India Associate Editors Dr. B.A. Daniel, Coimbatore, India Dr. Ulrike Streicher, Wildlife Veterinarian, Danang, Vietnam Ms. Priyanka Iyer, Coimbatore, India Dr. Manju Siliwal, Dehra Dun, India Dr. Meena Venkataraman, Mumbai, India Editorial Advisors Ms. Sally Walker, Coimbatore, India Dr. Robert C. Lacy, Minnesota, USA Dr. Russel Mittermeier, Virginia, USA Dr. Thomas Husband, Rhode Island, USA Dr. Jacob V. Cheeran, Thrissur, India Prof. Dr. Mewa Singh, Mysuru, India Mr. Stephen D. Nash, Stony Brook, USA Dr. Fred Pluthero, Toronto, Canada Dr. Martin Fisher, Cambridge, UK Dr. Ulf Gärdenfors, Uppsala, Sweden Dr. John Fellowes, Hong Kong Dr. Philip S. Miller, Minnesota, USA Prof. Dr. Mirco Solé, Brazil Editorial Board Subject Editors 2014–2015 A.J. Solomon Raju, Andhra University, Visakhapatnam, India Albert G. Orr, Griffith University, Nathan, Australia Alexi Popov, National Museum of Natural History, Sofia, Bulgaria Alexander Ereskovsky, IMBE, Marseille, France Andreas Köhler, Universidade de Santa Cruz do, Brazil Angela R. Glatston, Rotterdam Zoo, The Netherlands. Anjana Silva, Rajarata University of Sri Lanka, Saliyapura, Sri Lanka Annemarie Ohler, Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle, Paris, France Ansie Dippenaar-Schoeman, University of Pretoria, Queenswood, South Africa Antonio A. Mignucci-Giannoni, Universidad Interamericana de Puerto Rico, Puerto Rico Anwaruddin Chowdhury, Guwahati, India Aparna Watve, Pune, Maharashtra, India Arthur Y.C. Chung, Sabah Forestry Department, Sandakan, Sabah, Malaysia B.C. Choudhury (Retd.), Wildlife Institute of India, Dehradun, India. B. Ravi Prasad Rao, Sri Krishnadevaraya University, Anantpur, India B. Shivaraju, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India B.A. Daniel, Zoo Outreach Organization, Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, India B.S. Kholia, Botanical Survey of India, Gangtok, Sikkim, India Brett C. Ratcliffe, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, USA Brian Fisher, California Academy of Sciences, USA C. Raghunathan, Zoological Survey of India, Andaman and Nicobar Islands C. Srinivasulu, Osmania University, Hyderabad, India Carl Ferraris, Smithsonian Institution, Portland, USA Cecília Kierulff, Victorville , California Cecilia Volkmer Ribeiro, Porto Alegre, Brazil. Chris Bowden, Royal Society for the Protection of Birds, Sandy, UK Christoph Kueffer, Institute of Integrative Biology, Zürich, Switzerland Christoph Schwitzer, University of the West of England, Clifton, Bristol, BS8 3HA Christopher L. Jenkins, The Orianne Society, Athens, Georgia Cleofas Cervancia, Univ. of Philippines Los Baños College Laguna, Philippines Colin Groves, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia Crawford Prentice, Nature Management Services, Jalan, Malaysia D.B. Bastawade, Maharashtra, India D.J. Bhat, Retd. Professor, Goa University, Goa, India Dale R. Calder, Royal Ontaro Museum, Toronto, Ontario, Canada Daniel Brito, Federal University of Goiás, Goiânia, Brazil David Mallon, Zoological Society of London, UK Davor Zanella, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia Deepak Apte, Bombay Natural Hisotry Society, Mumbai, India. Diana Doan-Crider, Texas A&M University, Texas, USA Dietmar Zinner, German Primate Center, Göttingen, Germany E. Vivekanandan, Central Marine Fisheries Research Institute, Chennai, India Eduard Vives, Museu de Ciències Naturals de Barcelona, Terrassa, Spain Eric Smith, University of Texas, Arlington, USA Erin Wessling, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany F.B. Vincent Florens, University of Mauritius, Mauritius Ferdinando Boero, Università del Salento, Lecce, Italy Francesco Dal Grande, Senckenberg Gesellschaft für Naturforschung, Frankfurt George Mathew, Kerala Forest Research Institute, Peechi, India Gernot Vogel, Heidelberg, Germany Giovanni Amori, CNR - Institute of Ecosystem Studies, Rome, Italy Gombobaatar Sundev, Professor of Ornithology, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia G.P. Sinha, Botanical Survey of India, Allahabad, India Hayrünisa Baş Sermenli, Muğla University, Kötekli, Turkey H.C. Nagaveni, Institute of Wood Science and Technology, Bengaluru, India H.C. Paulo Corgosinho, Bairro Universitário, Frutal, Brazil Heidi S. Riddle, Riddle’s Elephant and Wildlife Sanctuary, Arkansas, USA Hem Sagar Baral, Charles Sturt University, NSW Australia Hemant V. Ghate, Modern College, Pune, India Heok Hee Ng, National University of Singapore, Science Drive, Singapore Hui Xiao, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Chaoyang, China Ian J. Kitching, Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, UK Ian Redmond, UNEP Convention on Migratory Species, Lansdown, UK Indraneil Das, Sarawak, Malaysia Ivana Karanovic, Hanyang University, Seoul, Korea J. Jerald Wilson, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia J.W. Duckworth, IUCN SSC, Bath, UK Jack Tordoff, Critical Ecosystem Partnership Fund, Arlington, USA James Young, Hong Kong Lepidopterists’ Society, Hong Kong Jeff McNeely, IUCN, Gland, Switzerland Jesse Leland, Southern Cross University, New South Wales, Australia Jill Pruetz, Iowa State University, Ames, USA Jodi L. Sedlock, Lawrence University, Appleton, USA John C. Morse, Clemson University, Long Hall, Clemson, USA John Noyes, Natural History Museum, London, UK John Veron, Coral Reef Foundation, Townsville, Australia K. Ravikumar, FRLHT, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India K.A. Subramanian, Zoological Survey of India, New Alipore, Kolkata, India Kelly B. Miller, University of New Mexico, USA K.G. Sivaramakrishnan, Madras Christian College, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India K.S. Gopi Sundar, International Crane Foundation, Baraboo, USA K.S. Negi, NBPGR-ICAR, Nainital District, Uttarakhand, India Kailash Chandra, Zoological Survey of India, Jabalpur, Madhya Pradesh, India Kareen Schnabel, NIWA, Wellington, New Zealand Karin Schwartz, George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia continued on the back inside cover Front cover: Pen and ink illustration of Red-headed Vulture Sarcogyps calvus by Eric Ramanujam, Pitchandikulam Forest, Auroville. Karol Bucsek, Witt Museum, München, Germany Kevin Smith, IUCN, Cambridge, UK Klaus Ruetzler, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC Kristin Leus, Copenhagen Zoo, Annuntiatenstraat, Merksem, Belgium Kumaran Sathasivam, Marine Mammal Conservation Network of India, India Lala A.K. Singh, Bhubaneswar, Orissa, India Llewellyn D. Densmore, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, USA Lukas Rüber, Department of Vertebrates, Natural History Museum, Switzerland M. Afzal Khan, Department of Zoology, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, India Mandar S. Paingankar, University of Pune, Pune, Maharashtra, India Manju Siliwal, WILD, Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, India Martin B.D. Stiewe, The Natural History Museum, UK Meena Venkataraman, Mumbai, India Merlin Franco, Curtin University, Malaysia Mewa Singh, Mysore University, Mysuru, India Mohammad Hayat, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, India Mohilal Meitei, Manipur University, Camchipur, Manipur, India M.K. Vasudeva Rao, Shiv Ranjani Housing Society, Pune, India. N.P. Balakrishnan, Ret. Joint Director, BSI, Coimbatore, India Nancy van der Poorten, Toronto, Canada Neelesh Dahanukar, IISER, Pune, Maharashtra, India Okan Külköylüoğlu, Abant Izzet Baysal University, Bolu, Turkey Pankaj Kumar, Kadoorie Farm and Botanic Garden Corporation, Hong Kong Partha Pratim Bhattacharjee, Tripura University, Suryamaninagar, India Paul A. Racey, University of Aberdeen, Scotland Peter Boveng, NOAA Alaska Fisheries Science Center, Seattle, USA. Peter Smetacek, Butterfly Research Centre, Bhimtal, India Priya Davidar, Pondicherry University, Kalapet, Puducherry, India P.M. Sureshan, Zoological Survey of India, Kozhikode, Kerala, India P.O. Nameer, Kerala Agricultural University, Thrissur, Kerala, India P.S. Easa, Kerala Forest Research Institute, Peechi, India R. Ramanibai, Guindy Campus, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India R. Varatharajan, Manipur University, Imphal, Manipur, India R.K. Avasthi, Rohtak University, Haryana, India R.K. Verma, Tropical Forest Research Institute, Jabalpur, India R.M. Sharma, (Retd.) Scientist, Zoological Survey of India, Pune, India Ragnar Kinzelbach, University of Rostock, Rostock, Germany Rajah Jayapal, SACON, Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, India Rajeev Raghavan, St. Albert’s College, Kochi, Kerala, India Rajiv S. Kalsi, M.L.N. 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ISSN 0974-7907 (Online); ISSN 0974-7893 (Print) January 2015 | Vol. 7 | No. 1 | Pages: 6739–6842 Date of Publication: 26 January 2015 (Online & Print) DOI: 10.11609/JoTT.26jan15.6739-6842 www.threatenedtaxa.org Article Habitat use and relative abundance of the Spotted Paca Cuniculus paca (Linnaeus, 1766) (Rodentia: Cuniculidae) and the Red-rumped Agouti Dasyprocta leporina (Linnaeus, 1758) (Rodentia: Dasyproctidae) in Guatopo National Park, Venezuela -- Elinor Jax, Sofía Marín, Adriana Rodríguez-Ferraro & Emiliana IsasiCatalá, Pp. 6739–6749 First report of the female of Cheirochela assamensis Hope, 1841 (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Naucoridae) from northeastern India -- Shruti V. Paripatyadar, Sophio Riphung & H.V. Ghate, Pp. 6815–6820 A parasitic association of Odonata (Insecta) with Arrenurus Dugés, 1834 (Arachnida: Hydrachnida: Arrenuridae) water mites -- Raymond J. Andrew, Payal R. Verma & Nilesh R. Thaokar, Pp. 6821–6825 Communications Notes Distribution of vultures in Uttar Pradesh, India -- Kaushalendra Kumar Jha, Pp. 6750–6763 Cheirostylis Blume (Orchidaceae), a new generic record for the Eastern Ghats, India -- Prasad Kumar Dash, Avishek Bhattacharjee, Pankaj Kumar & Pratyush Mohapatra, Pp. 6826–6829 Odonata of Maludam National Park, Sarawak, Malaysia -- Rory A. Dow, Robin Wen Jiang Ngiam & Rambli Ahmad, Pp. 6764–6773 The seasonality of butterflies in a semi-evergreen forest: Gibbon Wildlife Sanctuary, Assam, northeastern India -- Arun P. Singh, Lina Gogoi & Jis Sebastain, Pp. 6774–6787 Diversity and distribution of Primula species in western Arunachal Pradesh, eastern Himalayan region, India -- Amal Bawri, Padma Raj Gajurel, Ashish Paul & Mohamed Latif Khan, Pp. 6788–6795 Short Communications A preliminary baseline status of the Syrian Brown Bear Ursus arctos syriacus (Mammalia: Carnivora: Ursidae) in Golestanak, northern Iran -- Mohammad Sadegh Farhadinia & Negin Valizadegan, Pp. 6796–6799 A breeding site record of Long-billed Vulture Gyps indicus (Aves: Accipitriformes: Accipitridae) from Bejjur Reserve Forest, Telangana, India -- Swetha Stotrabhashyam, Bharath Reddy, Venugopal Satla & Imran Siddiqui, Pp. 6800–6804 Were human babies used as bait in crocodile hunts in colonial Sri Lanka? -- Anslem de Silva & Ruchira Somaweera, Pp. 6805–6809 An extended distribution of Ceropegia odorata Nimmo ex J. Graham (Apocynaceae: Asclepiadoideae) to the state of Madhya Pradesh, India -- Shaikh Mujaffar, Sharad S. Kambale & Shrirang R. Yadav, Pp. 6830– 6832 Rediscovery of Syzygium kanarense (Talbot) Raizada (Myrtaceae) an endemic species of the Western Ghats, India -- H.S. Shenoy, G. Krishnakumar & Ramakrishna Marati, Pp. 6833– 6835 A new species of Ropalidia Guérin-Méneville, 1831 (Hymenoptera: Vespidae: Polistinae) from the southern Western Ghats, India -- K.P. Mohammed Shareef, Lambert Kishore & P. Girish Kumar, Pp. 6836–6838 Recent record of a rarely recorded species, the Veined Palmer Hidari bhawani de Nicéville, 1888 (Lepidoptera: Hesperiidae: Aeromachini) from Jorhat, Assam, India -- Arun P. Singh, Pp. 6839–6840 Notes on the distribution, habitat, and behavior of Northern Tree Shrew Tupaia belangeri (Mammalia: Scandentia: Tupaiidae) in Tripura, India -- Joydeb Majumder & B.K. Agarwala, Pp. 6841–6842 Population structure, length-weight and length-length relationships of six populations of the Bartail Flathead Platycephalus indicus (Scorpaeniformes: Platycephalidae) along the Persian Gulf coastal waters -- Hamed Mousavi-Sabet, Adeleh Heidari & Hakimeh Fekrandish, Pp. 6810–6814 Threatened Taxa
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