Shripad Manthen

• Ph.D.
• Research Scholar at WALCHAND COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES, SOLAPUR

Larks are the passerine birds that are adapted for living in a wide range of open habitats ranging from grassland, semi-arid, arid and cultivated landscapes. In Maharashtra, the Deccan plateau provides perfect habitat for many residents and few migratory species of larks. In the present study, an attempt has been made to study population status and...

The first record of the male of Coscinida tibialis is reported from India, based on male specimens collected from pomegranate orchard in Aran village, Solapur, Maharashtra State. The validation of species is based on illustrations of both male and female genitalia.

The article discusses the functional ecology of spider families represented in pomegranate plantation. The main objective of the study is to focus on role of spiders in pest control in economically important pomegranate orchard. Spiders were sampled with active searching and gentle tapping in a study spanning one year. A total of 1226 individuals b...

The article discusses the functional ecology of spider families represented in pomegranate plantation. The main objective of the study is to focus on role of spiders in pest control in economically important pomegranate orchard. Spiders were sampled with active searching and gentle tapping in a study spanning one year. A total of 1226 individuals b...

Paper contains records of 14 species belonging to08 genera of 04tribes under 02 subfamilies of the family Tenebrionidae collected mainly from Tamhini Ghat, Maharashtra (Table 1). All the species are reported for the first time from this region. Two species, Amblysphagus indicus and Gonocephalum crasse punctatum Kaszab, 1952 are new records to Mahar...

While identifying the old (more than 50 years) collections of Western Regional Centre, Zoological Survey of India, Pune, the occurrence of the species B. orientalis Solier,1848 from Pune constitute first report to India.

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...

Among the gall making insects, those belonging the family Cecidomyiidae are most common in almost all zoogeographic regions. The larvae of gall midges have an ability to produce galls or abnormal plant growth. The adult gall midge is 0.5-3.0 mm long, rarety 8 mm orlessthan 0.5 mm. ln a recent survey of gall insects, few galls were observed on the l...

The study of the Tenebrionidae from the collections in Western Regional Centre, ZSI, Pune and earlier literature revealed the report of 16 species belonging to genus Gonocephalum under the tribe Opatrini of sub family Tenebrioninae of the family Tenebrionidae from Maharashtra state and 11 species are new records to the state and two species Gonocep...

The paper contains faunal data on 17 species of Chlaenius Bonelli (Carabidae) from Western Ghats region of Maharashtra state (India). Nine species are the first records to Maharashtra state. Specimens examined are deposited in national zoological collections (NZC) of Zoological Survey of India, Western Regional Centre, Pune. The photographs of new...

A new species of the spider genus Pandava Lehtinen, 1967 is described from Lonar Crater Sanctuary, India. The description of Pandava aruni sp. nov., its morphological characters, and illustrations are presented here. P. aruni sp. nov. resembles P. laminata (Thorell, 1878), P. ganesha Almeida-Silva, Griswold & Brescovit, 2010, and P. sarasvati Almei...

A new species of the Genus Dolichognatha O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1869 from Tetragnathidae with description of D. lonarensis sp.nov from Lonar Crater Sanctuary, District-Buldhana, India. Diagnosis, illustrations and description of the new species are presented.

This paper contains a systematic list of species and the literature references of the spiders precinctive in India. Spiders from 58 families, 340 genera and 1238 species are precinctive in India. However, there is an urgent need to revise all these species.

The spider Theridion melanostictum O.P.-Cambridge, 1876 is first time reported to Indian araneo-fauna. The present paper deals with the description of the newly recorded species from Lonar Crater Sanctuary, India. The morphological features and identification characters are presented.

The poorly known Genus Dyschiriognatha Simon, 1893 from Tetragnathidae is reported first time in India. The new species is described as Dyschiriognatha ganeshi sp.nov. from Lonar Crater Sanctuary, Distt. Buldhana, India. The taxonomic description and diagnoses of the new species are given.

The genus Wadicosa was established by Zyuzin (1985) with Lycosa venatrix Lucas, 1846 as type species. The genus Wadicosa includes five species as The genus closely resembles with Pardosa but differ from the later in male Palp with an anterior retreolateral process pointing ventrad and epigyne with two more or less completely separated foveolae (poc...

The genus Chrysilla (Salticidae) was first described by Thorell (1887) and is insufficiently known. Presently eight species has been reported. Three of them were known only from their males, four from females and only one from both male and females. The type species (Chrysilla lauta), C. albens, C. delicata, C. doriai, C. deelemani and C. acerosa b...

The Spider genus Orchestina Simon, 1882 is the first record from the family Oonopidae in India. Its basic diagnostic characteristics, image of its pedipalp and general ecological information are presented.

Spiders belonging to genus Latrodectus are well known as spiders of medical importance, as they present a real envenomation threat to humans leading to mild and sometimes severe pathological manifestations referred as latrodectism. Primary goals of this study were to gather baseline data on the distribution, population, behavior and breeding biolog...

The avifauna in a patch of one square kilometer area near Solapur city was surveyed for one year between July 2010 and July 2011 to assess the preliminary impact of anthropogenic activities on the population and breeding status. Baseline information on the impact of such changes on grassland ecosystem is lacking, making it difficult to prepare a su...

Gea (Araneae, Araneidae) is a tropical orb-weaving spider showing dark brown abdominal color with yellow and white patches and many smaller scattered yellowish and white spots on the dorsum. This study documents rapid and reversible physiological color change in Gea Spp. Ecological and behavioral studies pertaining to spiders are very few in India...

This article presents a study on the distribution and current status of spider families in three ecosystems of Maharashtra state. The basic goals of this study were to gather baseline distribution data on spiders by undertaking exhaustive surveys at some selected sites of three ecosystems of Maharashtra Viz. Lonar Crater Sanctuary, (Buldhana distri...