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Journal of Threatened Taxa PLATINUM The Journal of Threatened Taxa (JoTT) is dedicated to building evidence for conservaton globally by publishing peer-reviewed artcles OPEN ACCESS online every month at a reasonably rapid rate at www.threatenedtaxa.org. All artcles published in JoTT are registered under Creatve Commons Atributon 4.0 Internatonal License unless otherwise mentoned. JoTT allows unrestricted use, reproducton, and distributon of artcles in any medium by providing adequate credit to the author(s) and the source of publicaton. Journal of Threatened Taxa Building evidence for conservaton globally www.threatenedtaxa.org ISSN 0974-7907 (Online) | ISSN 0974-7893 (Print) Communication A faunistic survey of tiger beetles (Coleoptera: Carabidae: Cicindelinae) in Chakrashila Wildlife Sanctuary and adjoining riverine ecosystem in Assam, India Kushal Choudhury, Chandan Das & Amar Deep Soren 26 November 2020 | Vol. 12 | No. 15 | Pages: 17129–17137 DOI: 10.11609/jot.5609.12.15.17129-17137 For Focus, Scope, Aims, Policies, and Guidelines visit htps://threatenedtaxa.org/index.php/JoTT/about/editorialPolicies#custom-0 For Artcle Submission Guidelines, visit htps://threatenedtaxa.org/index.php/JoTT/about/submissions#onlineSubmissions For Policies against Scientfc Misconduct, visit htps://threatenedtaxa.org/index.php/JoTT/about/editorialPolicies#custom-2 For reprints, contact <[email protected]> The opinions expressed by the authors do not refect the views of the Journal of Threatened Taxa, Wildlife Informaton Liaison Development Society, Zoo Outreach Organizaton, or any of the partners. The journal, the publisher, the host, and the part- Publisher & Host ners are not responsible for the accuracy of the politcal boundaries shown in the maps by the authors. Member Threatened Taxa Journal of Threatened Taxa | www.threatenedtaxa.org | 26 November 2020 | 12(15): 17129–17137 ISSN 0974-7907 (Online) | ISSN 0974-7893 (Print) PLATINUM OPEN ACCESS DOI: htps://doi.org/10.11609/jot.5609.12.15.17129-17137 #5609 | Received 09 December 2019 | Final received 21 October 2020 | Finally accepted 04 November 2020 C o m A faunistc survey of tger beetles (Coleoptera: Carabidae: Cicindelinae) m u n in Chakrashila Wildlife Sanctuary and adjoining riverine ecosystem i c in Assam, India a t 1 2 3 i Kushal Choudhury , Chandan Das & Amar Deep Soren o n 1,2 PG Department of Zoology, Science College, Kokrajhar, Assam 783360, India. 3 PG and Research Department of Zoology, B. Borooah College, Guwahat, Assam 781007, India. 1 [email protected],2 [email protected], 3 [email protected] (corresponding author) Abstract: A faunistc survey was made to assess the tger beetle fauna from the Chakrashila Wildlife Sanctuary and adjacent rivers for the frst tme from the western part of Assam, India. A total of 15 species of tger beetles (subfamily Cicindelinae) belonging to seven genera were recorded from forest, moist and dry riverine ecosystem using an occasional night trap. Eight species belonging to fve genera were recorded from the riverine ecosystem. Two species, viz., Cylindera spinolae and Calochroa assamensis, were strictly restricted to the forest and Cosmodela virgula was recorded from both forest and riverine areas. Cylindera (Eugrapha) minuta, Calochroa favomaculata, and Lophyra (Spilodia) vitgera were collected using a night trap from the forest area. The study revealed that habitat degradaton due to human interference is the major threat to the tger beetles in the study area. Keywords: Calochroa assamensis, Cylindera spinolae, diversity, night trap, northeastern India, predatory insects, riverine, sandy, threats. Abbreviatons: BTAD—Bodoland Territorial Autonomous Districts | BTC—Bodoland Territorial Council | GPS—Global Positoning System | ZSI—Zoological Survey of India. Editor: K.A. Subramanian, Zoological Survey of India, Chennai, India. Date of publicaton: 26 November 2020 (online & print) Citaton: Choudhury, K., C. Das & A.D. Soren (2020). A faunistc survey of tger beetles (Coleoptera: Carabidae: Cicindelinae) in Chakrashila Wildlife Sanctuary and adjoining riverine ecosystem in Assam, India. Journal of Threatened Taxa 12(15): 17129–17137. htps://doi.org/10.11609/jot.5609.12.15.17129-17137 Copyright: © Choudhury et al. 2020. Creatve Commons Atributon 4.0 Internatonal License. JoTT allows unrestricted use, reproducton, and distributon of this artcle in any medium by providing adequate credit to the author(s) and the source of publicaton. Funding: No funding was received from any organizaton or person to carry out this study. Competng interests: The authors declare no competng interests. Author details: Dr. Kushal Choudhury is currently the Head and Assistant Professor in the PG Department of Zoology, at Science College, Kokrajhar, Assam, India. He specializes in teaching entomology and is actvely involved in teaching both undergraduate and post graduate students. He is involved in insect diversity and entomophagy research. Chandan Das is a PG student pursuing Masters in Zoology with specializaton in Entomology at Science College, Kokrajhar, Assam, India. Dr. Amar Deep Soren is currently Assistant Professor in the PG and Research Department of Zoology at B. Borooah College, Guwahat, Assam, India. He specializes in teaching genetcs and has been teaching both undergraduate and post graduate students. He is currently involved in entomophagy, ethnopharmacology, parasitology and toxicological research. Actve contributon: KC conceptualised and supervised the study and also wrote the frst draf. CD visited the feld, collected the beetles and took images along with KC. ADS analysed the data, structured the manuscript and approved the fnal draf. Acknowledgements: Authors are thankful to the Department of Forests, BTC for grantng permission to carry out this survey in the study area. Our special thanks to Raghunath Boro, Divisional Forest Ofcer, Wildlife Division, Kokrajhar for his support during study. Special thanks to Professor David L. Pearson, School of Life Sciences, Arizona State University and ZSI, Kolkata for assistng in the identfcaton of the tger beetles. We are also thankful to Aaranyak for providing the GIS image of the study area. 17129 J TT Tiger beetles of Chakrashila Wildlife Sanctuary Choudhury et al. INTRODUCTION (1863), Atkinson (1889), and Horn (1905a,b), though the frst comprehensive list of all genera of tger beetles of Tiger beetles are charismatc, fast running, and the Indian subcontnent was published by Fowler (1912). predatory insects under the subfamily Cicindelinae and Afer independence, Pajni & Bedi (1973) reported a family Carabidae. Cicindelinae is characterized by large preliminary survey of the cicindelid fauna of Chandigarh. compound eyes, fliform and 11-segmented antennae, Pearson & Ghorpade (1987) studied the geographical long legs, and long sickle-shaped mandibles. The size distributon and ecological history of tger beetles of the of tger beetles varies from 6–45 mm. They are adapted Siliguri-Darjeeling area of eastern India. Later, Bhargav to diferent habitat types such as riverine sandy areas, & Uniyal (2008) studied tger beetles in the Shivalik stream and pond edges, hillsides, rocky areas near roads, Landscape. In 2008, Werner & Wiesner frst recorded trails, and forest openings. Though the tger beetle is Neocollyris (Leptocollyris) parvula (Chaudoir, 1848), mainly distributed in the tropical region, it is also found Calochroa bicolor haemorrhoidalis (Wiedemann, 1823) in Greenland, Tasmania, and some small oceanic islands and Cylindera (Ifasina) severini (Horn, 1892) from the such as Hawaii (Pearson 1988; Cassola & Pearson 2000; state of Maharashtra, Rajasthan, and Madhya Pradesh. Pearson & Vogler 2001). Bhardwaj et al. (2008) reported the occurrence of tger All tger beetles are highly habitat-specifc (Knisley beetles from Utarakhand. Tiger beetles of Meghalaya & Hill 1992; Adis et al. 1998; Cardoso & Vogler 2005; were exclusively reported by Sawada & Wiesner in 1997. Pearson & Cassola 2007; Raf et al. 2010). Each species Recently, Harit (2013) studied the diversity of tger prefer specifc habitats such as riverine habitats beetles in Mizoram of northeastern India. Invertebrates (Ganeshaiah & Belavadi 1986; Satoh et al. 2006; Dangalle are understudied overall, and for even some of the et al. 2011a,b), forests (Adis et al. 1998), agroecosystems taxonomically beter studied groups like tger beetles (French et al. 2004; Sinu et al. 2006), parks, areas with (Cicindelidae), knowledge is scanty from this part of the human disturbances (Bhardwaj et al. 2008; Mosley land. Keeping these aspects in view, an investgaton of 2009), open areas with sparse vegetaton (Schiefer the occurrences and preferences of habitats along with 2004) and grasslands (Acorn 2004). The associaton of their present threats in Chakrashila Wildlife Sanctuary tger beetle species with habitat has been related to and the adjoining riverine ecosystem in western Assam their preferences for matng and ovipositon sites, food of India was conducted. availability, seasonality, vegetaton cover and physical, chemical and climatc qualites of the habitat (Pearson et al. 2006). Most of the tger beetles are diurnal, some MATERIALS AND METHODS species are strictly nocturnal and many are cathemeral (Pearson 1988). Though several species living together Study area is common, there is very litle competton among them, Chakrashila Wildlife Sanctuary (26.250–26.433 partcularly because of niche parttoning (Pearson & 0N and 90.250–90.333 0E 4,500ha) is located in the Carroll 1998). districts
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