Volume 123, Issue 2S, Special Issue 2023

Articles

• Garra lungongza, a New Species of Cyprinid Fish (Teleostei: Cyprinidae) from Nagaland, India

  Ng. Catherine, I. Linthoingambi

  1-12

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  DOI: https://doi.org/10.26515/rzsi/v123/i2S/2023/172494

• A New Fish Species of the Genus Garra (Teleostei: Cyprinidae) from the Chalou River, Manipur, India

  Thonbamliu Abonmai, Linthoingambi Irengbam, Catherine Ngangbam, Kalpana Thoidingjam, Kh. Rajmani Singh

  13-24

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  DOI: https://doi.org/10.26515/rzsi/v123/i2S/2023/172495

• A New Sisorid Catfish of the Genus Glyptothorax Blyth (Teleostei: Sisoridae) from Kasom Khullen of Manipur, India

  Kongbrailatpam Babyrani Devi, I. Linthoingambi, Kh. Rajmani Singh

  25-36

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  DOI: https://doi.org/10.26515/rzsi/v123/i2S/2023/172496

• Description of Talanema dhritiae sp. n. (Qudsianematidae : Dorylaimida) from West Bengal, India

  Viswa Venkat Gantait, Olivia Das

  37-46

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  DOI: https://doi.org/10.26515/rzsi/v123/i2S/2023/172497

• New Species and Records of Tribe Sericini of Manipur, India (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Melolonthinae)

  Debika Bhunia, Devanshu Gupta, Subhankar Kumar Sarkar, Dirk Ahrens

  47-54

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  DOI: https://doi.org/10.26515/rzsi/v123/i2S/2023/172498

• Description of Two New Species of Eulophus Geoffroy, 1762 (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea: Eulophidae) from India

  Mohd Tanjeem Raza, Shahid Bin Zeya

  55-60

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  DOI: https://doi.org/10.26515/rzsi/v123/i2S/2023/172499

• A New Species of the Genus Acaropsella (Acari: Trombidiformes: Cheyletidae) from Kerala, India

  Neeraj Martin, Sachin P James

  61-66

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  DOI: https://doi.org/10.26515/rzsi/v123/i2S/2023/172500

• Two New Records of Free-Living Marine Nematodes (Nematoda: Enoplida: Ironidae and Plectida: Leptolaimidae) from India

  Ritika Datta, Anjum N. Rizvi, C. Raghunathan

  67-76

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  DOI: https://doi.org/10.26515/rzsi/v123/i2S/2023/172501

• New Records and New Combinations of Ladybird Beetles from India (Coleoptera: Coccinellidae)

  Priyanka Das, Dhriti Banerjee, Devanshu Gupta

  77-84

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  DOI: https://doi.org/10.26515/rzsi/v123/i2S/2023/172502

• New Record of Sponge from Narara Reef, Gulf of Kutch

  G. Sivaleela, S. Devakumar, Michelle Kelly

  85-94

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  DOI: https://doi.org/10.26515/rzsi/v123/i2S/2023/172503

• New Distributional Record of Anthidiine Bee (Apoidea: Megachilidae) from Ladakh, India and a Checklist of the Family Megachilidae Latreille, 1802 (Hymenoptera: Insecta) of India

  P. M. Osman Javid, Rifat H. Raina, P.C. Pathania, Sajad H. Paray

  95-108

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  DOI: https://doi.org/10.26515/rzsi/v123/i2S/2023/172504

• First Record of a Whitefly, Asialeyrodes euphoriae Takahashi 1942 (Hemiptera: Aleyrodidae) from India

  Anil Kumar Dubey, Lakshmi Kousalya

  109-112

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  DOI: https://doi.org/10.26515/rzsi/v123/i2S/2023/172505

• First Report of Trimorus Förster (Hymenoptera: Scelionidae) from West Bengal, India with Description of a New Species

  Rupam Debnath, Sunita Patra, Abitha ., K. Rajmohana

  113-120

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  DOI: https://doi.org/10.26515/rzsi/v123/i2S/2023/172506

• Redescription of a Labeonid Fish Garra nasuta (McClelland, 1838) from its Type Locality in Meghalaya India

  Ibansiewdor Marngar, Yumnam Lokeshwor

  121-132

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  DOI: https://doi.org/10.26515/rzsi/v123/i2S/2023/172507

• Redescription of Carbula aliena Distant, 1918 (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Pentatomidae) from West Bengal, India with Reference to Male Genitalia and a Key to the Indian Species

  Amartya Pal, Swetapadma Dash, M. E. Hassan, Devanshu Gupta

  133-138

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  DOI: https://doi.org/10.26515/rzsi/v123/i2S/2023/172508

• First record of Acrida acuminata Stål, 1873 (Orthoptera: Acrididae: Acridinae) from India with description of its female genitalia

  Hirdesh Kumar, Mohd. Kamil Usmani , D. Suresh Chand

  139-144

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  DOI: https://doi.org/10.26515/rzsi/v123/i2S/2023/172509

• First record of Tabanus dorsiger Wiedemann, 1821 (Insecta: Diptera: Tabanidae) from Andaman and Nicobar Islands, India

  Koustav Mukherjee, Atanu Naskar , Dhriti Banerjee

  145-150

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  DOI: https://doi.org/10.26515/rzsi/v123/i2S/2023/172510

• Redescription of Neoeucirrhichthys maydelli (Teleostei: Cobitidae) from Brahmaputra drainage, Assam, Northeastern India

  Bidangshri Basumatary, Yumnam Lokeshwor Singh

  151-158

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  DOI: https://doi.org/10.26515/rzsi/v123/i2S/2023/172511

• Preliminary observation on the polymorphic forms in three species of the Genus Lepidocephalichthys Bleeker, 1863 of Northeast India

  Kangjam Velentina, Yumnam Lokeshwor

  159-168

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  DOI: https://doi.org/10.26515/rzsi/v123/i2S/2023/172512

• Morphology of three species belonging to genus Cletomorpha Mayr, 1866 (Hemiptera: Coreidae) with special reference to male genitalia

  Susmita Khanra, Swetapadma Dash, Amartya Pal

  169-176

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  DOI: https://doi.org/10.26515/rzsi/v123/i2S/2023/172513

• Morphological discrepancies of three Garra (Teleostei: Cyprinidae) in Arunachal Pradesh, India- a possible evolutionary process

  Bungdon Shangningam, Shibananda Rath , Asha Kiran Tudu , Laishram Kosygin

  177-184

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  DOI: https://doi.org/10.26515/rzsi/v123/i2S/2023/172514

• Comparative Morphometric Studies of The Habrobracon hebetor-brevicornis and Bracon lefroyi-greeni Complexes of Braconid Wasps (Hymenoptera: Braconidae: Braconinae)

  Longjam Roni Kumar Singh, Dulal Chandra Ray

  185-200

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  DOI: https://doi.org/10.26515/rzsi/v123/i2S/2023/172515

• Revalidation of Schizothorax chivae Arunkumar & Moyon, 2016 from the Chindwin River basin, Northeastern India

  Nilibo A., Yumnam Lokeshwor, Yengkhom Chinglemba , Yumnam Rameshwori , Ningombam Ibungo Singh

  201-210

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  DOI: https://doi.org/10.26515/rzsi/v123/i2S/2023/172516

• Comparative analysis on Sclerite Morphometry: a useful tool in the soft corals Lobophytum sp. (Sarcophytidae: Octocorallia: Anthozoa) identification from Andaman and Nicobar Islands, India

  S. Rajendra, C. Raghunathan

  211-222

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  DOI: https://doi.org/10.26515/rzsi/v123/i2S/2023/172517

• Scanning Electron Microscopic study on mouth parts of hill stream fishes, Psilorhynchus ngathanu, Shangningam et al., 2013 and Garra abhoyai, Hora, 1921 from Chindwin Basin, Manipur, India. (Teleostei: Cyprinidae)

  Shagolsem Aruna Chanu, I. Linthoingambi, Kh. Rajmani Singh, Ng. Catherine

  223-234

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  DOI: https://doi.org/10.26515/rzsi/v123/i2S/2023/172518

• Characterization and Morphologically Identification of Scavenger Syrphid (Insecta: Diptera) Pupae Using Scanning Electron Microscopy (SEM) Study

  Bristi Roy, Jayita Sengupta, Atanu Naskar, G. P. Mandal, Dhriti Banerjee

  235-244

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  DOI: https://doi.org/10.26515/rzsi/v123/i2S/2023/172519

• Larval and Adult Taxonomy of Kodomillet Shoot Fly Atherigona simplex (Thomson) (Diptera: Muscidae)

  Prabhu Ganiger, Muddasar ., Yamanappa R Madigar, Aswini R

  245-252

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  DOI: https://doi.org/10.26515/rzsi/v123/i2S/2023/172520

• Morpho-Taxonomy and Seasonal Prevalence of Culicoides Latreille, 1809 (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae) in Sonamukhi Protected Forest, Bankura, West Bengal

  Emon Mukhopadhyay, Supradipta Dutta, Moubanti Das, Suman Kumar Saha, Sudip Mondal, Dhriti Banerjee

  253-260

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  DOI: https://doi.org/10.26515/rzsi/v123/i2S/2023/172521

• Comparative Cranial Osteology of Hydrophis schistosus Daudin, 1803 and Hydrophis platurus (Linnaeus, 1766) (Elapidae: Hydrophiinae)

  Sonia Mondal, Souradeepa Kundu, Pratyush P. Mohapatra, C. Raghunathan

  261-268

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  DOI: https://doi.org/10.26515/rzsi/v123/i2S/2023/172522

• Descriptions of Poorly Known Marine Sponges (Phylum Porifera) from the Andaman Islands India with Notes on their Ecology

  Preeti Pereira, Chelladurai Raghunathan

  269-296

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  DOI: https://doi.org/10.26515/rzsi/v123/i2S/2023/172523

• Zoogeographic Affinities of Silverfishes (Zygentoma: Lepismatidae) of India

  Debanjan Jana, Ashis Kumar Hazra

  297-304

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  DOI: https://doi.org/10.26515/rzsi/v123/i2S/2023/172524

• Species Diversity of Phytophagous Scarab Fauna (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae) in Western Ghats of Kerala, India

  Judith Corolin Correya, Kolla Sreedevi

  305-314

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  DOI: https://doi.org/10.26515/rzsi/v123/i2S/2023/172525

• Diversity of Zooplankton in Mountainous Organic based Paddy cum Fish Cultivation ecosystem in Ziro, Arunachal Pradesh

  Rajashree Saikia, Dipankar Debnath, Tapati Das, D. N. Das

  315-328

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  DOI: https://doi.org/10.26515/rzsi/v123/i2S/2023/172526

• Diversity of Eimeria Schneider, 1875 (Conoidasida: Eucoccidiorida: Eimeriidae) in Broiler Chickens of Purulia District, West Bengal, India

  Azmal Baidya, Biplob Kumar Modak

  329-340

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  DOI: https://doi.org/10.26515/rzsi/v123/i2S/2023/172527

• Centipede Diversity in Reserved Forests of Southern Kerala: A Preliminary Observation

  Rahul Krishnan, G. Prasad

  341-348

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  DOI: https://doi.org/10.26515/rzsi/v123/i2S/2023/172528

• Diversity and Spatial Distribution of Molluscs along the Salinity Gradient in Ashtamudi Lake Ramsar Site, Kerala, India

  Chinnu Vishwanathan, Biju Kumar A.

  349-362

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  DOI: https://doi.org/10.26515/rzsi/v123/i2S/2023/172529

• Diversity of Mollusca (Gastropoda) along Intertidal Rocky Shores of Thiruvananthapuram District, Kerala Coast

  Preetha Karnaver, Ajin Madhavan, Ravinesh R ., Reshmi R., Biju Kumar A., Hari Kumar B.

  363-378

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  DOI: https://doi.org/10.26515/rzsi/v123/i2S/2023/172530

• Ant Diversity in Forested and Human Disturbed Varying Elevational Habitats of Shendurney Wildlife Sanctuary, Western Ghats, India with Landscape Analysis Using QGIS

  Merin Elizabeth George, G Prasad

  379-388

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  DOI: https://doi.org/10.26515/rzsi/v123/i2S/2023/172531

• Diversity and Taxonomical Identification of Marine Zooplankton from Digha Adjacent Coastal Waters

  Purbita Bhattacharyya, K. Anbarasu, S. Balakrishnan

  389-400

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  DOI: https://doi.org/10.26515/rzsi/v123/i2S/2023/172554

• Bumble Bee, Bombus haemorrhoidalis Smith, 1852 (Apoidea: Hymenoptera)- A Significant Pollinator and Bio-Indicator Species of the Lower Shiwalik Ranges in the Western Himalayan States of India

  Shivani Sharma, Gaurav Sharma; Namita Josh

  401-408

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  DOI: https://doi.org/10.26515/rzsi/v123/i2S/2023/172532

• Spiders (Arachnida: Araneae) of the Shendurney Wildlife Sanctuary, Kerala, India

  Puthoor Pattammal Sudhin, Souvik Sen

  409-420

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  DOI: https://doi.org/10.26515/rzsi/v123/i2S/2023/172533

• Flower Visiting Flies (Insecta: Diptera) and their Interaction with The Flowering Plants in a Tropical Island Ecosystem

  Debdeep Pramanik, Koustav Mukherjee, Debjani Ghosh, Saikat Sarkar, Atanu Naskar, Dhriti Banerjee

  421-434

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  DOI: https://doi.org/10.26515/rzsi/v123/i2S/2023/172534

• Integrative Taxonomy of Tetraodontiform Fishes (Tetraodontiformes: Percomorpha) from Southwest Coast of India

  Suvarna S. Devi, Mosab Ali Alzahaby, Vishnuraj R., Nisanth H.P., Shabina A., Biju Kumar A.

  435-446

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  DOI: https://doi.org/10.26515/rzsi/v123/i2S/2023/172535

• Preliminary Assessment of Arthropod Diversity of the Rock-Cut Caves of Satara District, Maharashtra, India

  Pooja Kumar Misal, Aparna Sureshchandra Kalawate

  447-452

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  DOI: https://doi.org/10.26515/rzsi/v123/i2S/2023/172536

• Shining Leaf Chafers (Coleoptera, Scarabaeidae, Rutelinae) of Jammu and Kashmir, India

  Irtiza Wani, Joyjit Ghosh, Devanshu Gupta

  453-458

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  DOI: https://doi.org/10.26515/rzsi/v123/i2S/2023/172537

• Studies on the Prevalence of Endoparasitic Protozoans of Oligochaetes in the Bankura District of West Bengal

  Moumita Sinha, Biplob Kumar Modak

  459-466

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  DOI: https://doi.org/10.26515/rzsi/v123/i2S/2023/172538

• An Insight into the Taxonomy and Diversity of Pollinating Hoverflies (Insecta: Diptera: Syrphidae) from Dry Deciduous Landscape of West Bengal

  Jayita Sengupta, Arka Mukherjee, Atanu Naskar, Dhriti Banerjee

  467-488

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  DOI: https://doi.org/10.26515/rzsi/v123/i2S/2023/172539

• An Updated Checklist of Indian Batoids with New Distributional Records and Conservation Status

  Bineesh K. K., Ida E. G., Nashad M., Rajendra Kumar, Rajkumar Rajan, Anil Mohapatra

  489-498

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  DOI: https://doi.org/10.26515/rzsi/v123/i2S/2023/172540

• Biosystematics and Biogeography of Indian Mantodea (Insecta)

  Sureshan P. M., Kamila A. P.

  499-504

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  DOI: https://doi.org/10.26515/rzsi/v123/i2S/2023/172541

• Occurrence of Soil-Inhabiting Nematoda (Dorylaimida and Tylenchida) in Some Protected Areas and Tea Estates of Assam with Four New Records of Dorylaimida from India

  Debabrata Sen, Samprit Deb Roy

  505-524

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  DOI: https://doi.org/10.26515/rzsi/v123/i2S/2023/172542

• Biological Assessment of Major Water Bodies of The City of Kolkata

  Subhadip Ghosh, Shaheen Akhtar, Kanchan Kumari

  525-534

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  DOI: https://doi.org/10.26515/rzsi/v123/i2S/2023/172543

• Spider richness in Kuttanad, a major low-lying rice agroecosystem in Central Kerala, India

  Nishi Babu, G. Prasad

  535-542

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  DOI: https://doi.org/10.26515/rzsi/v123/i2S/2023/172544

• Osteology of incomplete lateral lined schisturid loaches of Meghalaya: a comparative account

  Wimarithy K. Marak, Yumnam Lokeshwor Singh

  543-554

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  DOI: https://doi.org/10.26515/rzsi/v123/i2S/2023/172545

• Comparison of the Population of Soil-Inhabiting Nematoda in The Context of Pesticide Application with an Observation on Their Trophic Groups

  Debabrata Sen, Samprit Deb Roy

  555-564

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  DOI: https://doi.org/10.26515/rzsi/v123/i2S/2023/172546

• Do Earthworms Truly Always Assist Farmers or is There Another Fact ?

  Pooja Tiwari, Shweta Yadav

  565-572

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  DOI: https://doi.org/10.26515/rzsi/v123/i2S/2023/172547

• Seasonal variation of the species complex of necrophagous fly communities from a dry deciduous forest landscape

  Garima Hore, Oishik Kar, Atanu Naskar, Jayita Sengupta, Dhriti Banerjee

  573-582

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  DOI: https://doi.org/10.26515/rzsi/v123/i2S/2023/172548

• A Study on Ichthyofaunal Diversity of Yerla River, Northern Western Ghat, Maharashtra, India

  Angha V. Bhoi-Kamble, Suresh M. Kumbar

  583-600

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  DOI: https://doi.org/10.26515/rzsi/v123/i2S/2023/172549

• A Preliminary study of the fish diversity of east Siang and Loihit River of Pasighat and Tezu with the description of a new Garra species (Teleostei: Cyprinidae)

  Kalpana Thoidingjam, Catherine Ngangbam, Linthoingambi Irengbam, Kh. Rajmani Singh

  601-612

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  DOI: https://doi.org/10.26515/rzsi/v123/i2S/2023/172550

• Biodiversity Profile of Phytotelmata of The Southern Western Ghats, and The Use of Tree Crab Kani maranjandu Kumar, Raj & Ng, 2017, as an Indicator of Ecosystem Health

  Soumya K. R., Biju Kumar A.

  613-624

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  DOI: https://doi.org/10.26515/rzsi/v123/i2S/2023/172551

• Investigating the pollen transport network between moths (Lepidoptera) and the economically important plants in Central and Eastern Himalaya

  Rajesh Lenka, Dipayan Mitra, Pallab Chatterjee, Avishek Talukdar, Navneet Singh

  625-632

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  DOI: https://doi.org/10.26515/rzsi/v123/i2S/2023/172552

• Pesticide differentially affects natural predators causing pest build up: a case study in Brinjal

  Manobrata Das, Parthiba Basu

  633-640

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  DOI: https://doi.org/10.26515/rzsi/v123/i2S/2023/172553

• New Distributional Record of Spilomutilla eltola (Cameron, 1898) (Hymenoptera: Mutillidae) From India

  Joshua B. Terine, Girish P. Kumar

  641-644

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  DOI: https://doi.org/10.26515/rzsi/v123/i2S/2023/172593

• Two new species of Bryophaenocladius Thienemann (Diptera: Chironomidae: Orthocladiinae) from Darjeeling and Kolkata, West Bengal, India with a note on biology of montane species

  Dipak Kumar Som, Tuhar Mukherjee, Torpita Das , Rima Chakraborty

  645-656

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  DOI: https://doi.org/10.26515/rzsi/v123/i2S/2023/172594

• Taxonomy of the genus Nala Zacher, 1910 (Dermaptera: Labiduridae) from India

  Shruti Lekha Dey, K. G. Emiliyamma

  657-670

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  DOI: https://doi.org/10.26515/rzsi/v123/i2S/2023/172595

• An updated checklist of Thrips (Insecta: Thysanoptera) of Sikkim

  Th D Songomsing Chiru, Thang Johnson, R R Rachana, R Varatharajan

  671-678

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  DOI: https://doi.org/10.26515/rzsi/v123/i2S/2023/172596

• New records of Collembola (Hexapoda) from West Bengal with notes on their Taxonomy

  Pritha Mandal, Guru Pada Mandal, K. K. Suman, K. K. Bhattacharya, Dhriti Banerjee

  679-694

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  DOI: https://doi.org/10.26515/rzsi/v123/i2S/2023/172459

• Unusual abundance of invasive Tilapia species in coastal waters of Devipattinam, Palk Bay, India

  Swarnendu Bera, Soumili Paul, Muthusamy Anand, Kannan Rangesh

  695-706

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  DOI: https://doi.org/10.26515/rzsi/v123/i2S/2023/172460

• Substratum preferences of Ascidians in Natural and Artificial Reef Environment, Andaman and Nicobar Islands

  Jhimli Mondal, C. Raghunathan

  707-716

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  DOI: https://doi.org/10.26515/rzsi/v123/i2S/2023/172599

• Faunal diversity of zooplankton in the selected wetlands of Nagaland, North-East India

  Kensibo Pamai, B. K. Sharma

  717-736

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  DOI: https://doi.org/10.26515/rzsi/v123/i2S/2023/172600

• Habitat selection in Orb weaving spider Nephila pilipes Fabricius,1793 (Araneae: Araneidae): niche complexity determines site selection and distribution of kleptoparasites

  Minakshi Dash, C. Sivaperuman

  737-744

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  DOI: https://doi.org/10.26515/rzsi/v123/i2S/2023/172601

• The Diversity and Distribution of The Order Charadriiformes Along The Kerala Coast and Selected Islands of Lakshadweep, India

  Nisanth HP, Biju Kumar A

  745-756

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  DOI: https://doi.org/10.26515/rzsi/v123/i2S/2023/172602

• Ant (Family: Formicidae) Diversity in Two Urban Landscapes of Kolkata

  Priyanka Das, Arijit Chatterjee, Sheela Saroj

  757-766

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  DOI: https://doi.org/10.26515/rzsi/v123/i2S/2023/172465

• Genetic diversity and phylogenetic analysis of Indian Rhesus macaque (Macaca mulatta) using Mitochondrial D-loop

  E. Agnita Sharon, Ranjana Bhaskar

  767-776

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  DOI: https://doi.org/10.26515/rzsi/v123/i2S/2023/172466

• Ecological Interactions Based on Shell Selection in Hermit Crabs (Decapoda: Anomura): A Case Study from Kerala Coast

  Reshmi R, Preetha Karnaver, A. Bijukumar

  777-792

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  DOI: https://doi.org/10.26515/rzsi/v123/i2S/2023/172467