Manu T Mathai

Manu T Mathai
Madras Christian College | MCC · Department of Zoology

M.Sc.,M.Phil.,Ph.D.,FSACO

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The book is intended to showcase the rich diversity of spiders from the scrub jungle. Scrub jungles are an integral part of the Tropical Dry Evergreen Forests found along the Coromandel Coast which are highly degraded and rapidly vanishing (with only 1 % of it still remaining) due to anthropogenic activities. Conserving the habitat is of prime impo...
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Background In an urban scenario, it is an arduous task to collect adult Anopheles stephensi, unlike the immature forms due to various reasons such as the complex spatial heterogeneity, intricacies in feeding, and resting preferences. Thus it is necessary to have more specific and accurate assessments of adult vector density by performing various co...
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Background: Environmental factors such as temperature, relative humidity and their daily variation influence a range of mosquito life history traits and hence, malaria transmission. The standard way of characterizing environmental factors with meteorological station data need not be the actual microclimates experienced by mosquitoes within local t...
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Background Household and environmental factors are reported to influence the malaria endemicity of a place. Hence, a careful assessment of these factors would, potentially help in locating the possible areas under risk to plan and adopt the most suitable and appropriate malaria control strategies. MethodsA cross-sectional household survey was carri...
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The genus Hersilia was established by Audouin in 1826 with H. caudata Audouin, 1826 as the type species. It is the most speciose hersiliid genus presently comprising 79 described species worldwide (World Spider Catalog 2017, version 18). There are seven species known from India: H. aadi Pravalikha, Srinivasulu & Srinivasulu, 2014, H. longivulva Sen...
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Background The Indian city of Chennai is endemic for malaria and the known local malaria vector is Anopheles stephensi. Plasmodium vivax is the predominant malaria parasite species, though Plasmodium falciparum is present at low levels. The urban ecotype of malaria prevails in Chennai with perennial transmission despite vector surveillance by the U...
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Aetius decollatus O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1896 is discovered and redescribed from new locality in Tamil Nadu, India. A new combination is being proposed: Aetius tuberculatus (Haddad, 2013) comb. nov., thus extending the distribution of genus Aetius to the African continent.
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Background The physico-chemical characteristics of lentic aquatic habitats greatly influence mosquito species in selecting suitable oviposition sites; immature development, pupation and adult emergence, therefore are considerations for their preferred ecological niche. Correlating water quality parameters with mosquito breeding, as well as immature...
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Background Wells and overhead tanks (OHT) are the major breeding sources of the local malaria vector, Anopheles stephensi in the Indian city of Chennai; they play a significant role in vector breeding, and transmission of urban malaria. Many other man-made breeding habitats, such as cemented cisterns/containers, barrels or drums, sumps or undergrou...
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The genus Stenaelurillus Simon, 1886 is known from 35 species worldwide, including 27 species from Africa and eight from Asia (four species known from India, one from Iran, one from China, one from Tibet and one from Vietnam) (World Spider Catalog 2016). The four species known from India are S. albus Sebastian et al., 2015, S. jagannathae Das, Mali...
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The association of C. megacephala with decomposing carrion is of particular interest in the field of forensic entomology. The impact of different isolated diets influence the larval weight and length including head capsule which accounts on its fine articulated cephalopharyngeal sclerites. The larval feeding duration highly influence the duration o...
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Six species of jumping spider are described from South India. A new genus, Phanuelus gen.nov. is proposed to accommodate a new species, Phanuelus gladstone sp.nov. Four new species namely, Langona albolinea sp.nov., Mashonarus davidi sp.nov., Phanuelus gladstone sp.nov., and Phlegra prasanna sp.nov., are described. Aelurillus kronestedti Azarkina,...
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DNA barcoding of Lycosa bistriata was performed by sequencing the partial coding regions of the mitochondrial cytochrome oxidase subunit I (COI) gene
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DNA barcoding of Hippasa madraspatana was performed by sequencing the partial coding regions of the mitochondrial cytochrome oxidase subunit I (COI) gene
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A new species of jumping spiders from the genus Harmochirus Simon, namely Harmochirus exaggeratus sp.nov. is described from Chennai, India. Morphological characters and illustrations of the genitalia are provided. KEY WORDS: Harmochirus exaggeratus sp. nov., new species, Salticidae, South India. Genus Harmochirus has been placed under the group Har...
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A new record of an orb web weaving spider, Araneus viridisomus Gravely, 1921 is dealt with detailed description and notes on its natural history from Chennai (Madras), South India.
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Five species of jumping spiders are being described from South India. Among these, Viciria diatreta Simon, 1902 has been reported after a span of 112 years from its first description, two species Phintella volupe (Karsch, 1879) and Thyene bivittata Xie & Peng, 1995 are new records in India, and two new species namely Chrysilla jesudasi sp. nov. and...
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Iphita limbata is a macropterous but flightless, phytophagous bug feeding on the seeds of Sterculia foetida. The studies on bio-ecology, activity pattern and sexual dimorphism in Iphita limbata from specified areas of Madras Christian College, Tambaram reveals that the occurrences of males were more than the females. Predominant mating behavior was...
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Melghat Tiger Reserve is one of the finest dry deciduous and mixed deciduous habitat is situated in southern offshoot of the Satpura mountain province in Maharashtra. A detailed survey of butterflies was conducted between October 2010 and March 2011 in the Gugamal National Park which is core zone of the Tiger Reserve. The objective of the survey wa...
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Background Environmental temperature is an important driver of malaria transmission dynamics. Both the parasite and vector are sensitive to mean ambient temperatures and daily temperature variation. To understand transmission ecology, therefore, it is important to determine the range of microclimatic temperatures experienced by malaria vectors in t...

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