Tharindu RanasingheButterfly Conservation Society of Sri Lanka
Tharindu Ranasinghe
Bachelor of Science
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This book provides an overview about the biodiversity of the Ampara district, the drivers that affect the biodiversity and the current trends in the biodiversity in the district.
This book provides an overview about the biodiversity of the Mannar district, the drivers that affect the biodiversity and the current trends in the biodiversity in the district.
Lestes concinnus is a widespread species in tropical Asia and Oceania. It is a species known to have variable colour patterns ranging between pale and dark phenotypes which have earlier been recognized as distinct species. Lestes concinnus has never been known from Sri Lanka before. We report observations of both phenotypes of the species and inter...
Lestes concinnus is a widespread species in tropical Asia and Oceania. It is a species known to have variable colour patterns ranging between pale and dark phenotypes which have earlier been recognized as distinct species. Lestes concinnus has never been known from Sri Lanka before. We report observations of both phenotypes of the species and inter...
The foregoing paper by Hiremath et al. (2022) points out that even though Gardena melinarthrum Dohrn, 1860 was first described on the basis of an apterous specimen collected from Sri Lanka (= Ceylon), there were no details of the location; more important fact is that there is no subsequent record of this species from Sri Lanka since 1860. We are no...
Ricefishes of the genus Oryzias occur commonly in the fresh and brackish waters in coastal lowlands ranging from India across Southeast Asia and on to Japan. Among the three species of Oryzias recorded from peninsular India, two widespread species, O. carnaticus and O. dancena, have previously been reported from Sri Lanka based on museum specimens...
Macromia flinti Lieftinck, 1977, is an endemic dragonfly in Sri Lanka and one of the rarest known odonates in the country. Originally described based on a single specimen collected in 1970, it had not been reported in the past 50 years and thus was considered a globally Critically Endangered Species (IUCN), possibly even extinct. Here we report the...
Anisogomphus ceylonicus (Hagen in Selys, 1878) is one of the rarest of the Sri Lankan Odonata. It was first discovered from Ramboda over 140 years ago based on a female specimen, which was originally described as Gomphus ceylonicus and later assigned to the genus Heliogomphus by F. C. Fraser. Almost a century later, Lieftinck (1971) collected an im...
Background
Sri Lanka is a continental island separated from India by the Palk Strait, a shallow-shelf sea, which was emergent during periods of lowered sea level. Its biodiversity is concentrated in its perhumid south-western ‘wet zone’. The island’s freshwater fishes are dominated by the Cyprinidae, characterized by small diversifications of speci...
A Rapid Assessment of the Diversity and Composition of Arthropods in an Ellanga Agricultural System in Sri Lanka
Larval food plants (LFPs) of Sri Lankan butterflies have been well documented recently with the aid of studies done by numerous researchers. In this paper, we present further records, 118 LFPs used by 83 butterflies and 145 plant-butterfly combinations. LFPs of Lethe dynsate and Potanthus pseudomaesa pseudomaesa are reported for the first time in S...
The diversity of the freshwater-fish genus Rasbora (Cyprinidae) on Sri Lanka (five species)
is high compared with the four species reported from the peninsula of India,
from which the island's cyprinid fauna is derived. The paucity of characters by which
species of Rasbora can be phenotypically distinguished renders field identification
difficult,...
As the type species of the genus Channa, the identity of the pelvic-finless snakehead Channa orientalis Bloch is important to channid systematics. Although this name has been attached to a Sri Lankan species for the past 160 years, its vaguely specified type locality, ‘India Orientali’, has long cast doubt as to its origin. Here, based on a collect...
The taxonomic status of the large snakeheads of the Channa marulius group that occur in Sri Lanka is reviewed and clarified. Two species are recognized from the island, based on both morphological and molecular (cytochrome c oxidase subunit 1: cox1) differentiation: C. marulius Hamilton from the northern dry zone and C. ara Deraniyagala from the mi...
The endemic Sri Lankan synbranchid 'Monopterus' desilvai is redescribed based on additional material. In life, individuals have a maroon background colour with numerous dark brown blotches. They breathe air, which is stored in paired suprabranchial pouches. The head skeleton of M. desilvai is described in detail. This species shares with M. cuchia,...
The taxonomy of the three native taxa assigned to the genus Labeo (L. dussumieri, L. fisheri and L. porcellus lankae) in Sri Lanka is reviewed. The population hitherto identified as L. dussumieri in Sri Lanka is shown to be a distinct species, here named L. heladiva. Labeo heladiva, new species, has a wide distribution in the low and mid-elevations...
Tiger beetles were surveyed from 2014 to 2016 in four protected areas of Sri Lanka covering the wet zone, the intermediate zone, the dry zone and the arid zone. Field surveys covered all types of major habitats found in each protected area. Species richness and other diversity indices were calculated and compared. The Dahaiyagala Sanctuary in the i...
”Predators of Butterflies” from monthly lecture series conducted by Butterfly Conservation Society of Sri Lanka (BCSSL)
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In ResearchGate, some of the citations does not show in the respective articles. I think this is common when there's no full text uploaded to here, but even in some cases, RG does not recognize the citations properly and because of that, there's lack of overall citations to some articles and profiles in here. Any ideas on how to overcome this issue and put a spotlight to it?
Thanks!
Projects
Projects (3)
Studying the diversity, distribution, ecology and conservation of Sri Lankan Odonata.
Documenting the approximately 2200 (and rising) moth species of Sri Lanka, their distributions, abundance, habitats and general ecology with combination of citizen science efforts. (http://www.inaturalist.org/projects/moths-of-sri-lanka.mobile)
Primate Research and Conservation projects conducted through the collaborations between SPEARS Foundation, University of Colombo and the Department of Wildlife Conservation, Sri Lanka.
