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Hotspot region Areas covered Western Himalyas covering Ladakh and Kargil. Upper reaches of Lahuai-Spit districts of Himachal 1. Cold Desert Pradesh. Districts of Srinagar, Anantnag, Udhamput, Riasi, Kathna in Jammu & Kashmir, all the districts of 2. Western Himalayan Himachal Pradesh except the cold arid region and all the districts of Utarakhand. 3. Eastern Himalayan All the districts of Arunachal Pradesh, Sikkim and Darjeeling District of West Bengal. Dhubri, Kokrajhar, Bongaigaon, Barpeta, Nalbari, Goalpara, Kamrup, Golaghat, Darrang, Morigaon, 4. Brahmaputra Valley Nagaon, Sonitpur, Jorhat, Lakhimpur, Sibsagar, Dibrugarh, Dhemaji and Tinsukia. All the seven districts of Meghalaya, i.e., East Garo Hills, West Garo Hills, South Garo Hills, East Khasi 5. Khasia-Jainta-Garo Hills Hills, West Khasi Hills, Jainta Hills and Ri-Bhoi. All the districts of Manipur, Mizoram, Nagaland, Tripura and the adjoining Cachar and North 6. North-eastern Hills Cachar districts of Asom. Sikar, Nagaur, Pali, Hanumangarh, Ganganagar, Jalore, Sirohi, Jodhpur, parts of Jaisalmer and 7. Arid western Bikaner, Udaipur, Dungarpur, Churu, and Jhunjhunun districts of Rajastahan. Malwa plateau, Central highlands, the Mewar plateau and semi- arid south-eastern Rajasthan. Malwa Plateau and central 8. Shadel, Raisen, Bhopal, Sehore, Shajapur, Indore, Ujjain, Mandasaur, Rajgarh Hoshangabad, Highlands Narsinghpur, Jabalpur, Mandla, Umaria districts. Ahemadabad, Surendranagar, Jamnagar, Rajkot, Porbandar, Junagadh, Amreli, Bhavnagar, Bharuch, 9. Kathiawar Surat, Navsari, Valsad, Banaskantha and Anand districts of Gujarat. Districts of Jhansi, Banda, Chitrakoot, Hamirpur, Jalaun and Lalitpur in Utar Pradesh and Damoha, 10. Bundelkhand Data, Panna, Sagar, Tikamagarh and Chatarpur in Madhya Pradesh. Districts of Hardoi, Sitapur, Barabanki, Lucknow, Unnao, Rae Bareilly, Kanpur, Kannuj of Central 11. Upper Gangetc Plains Utar Pradesh and the districts of Maharajganj, Sidharatnagar, Kushinagar, Deoria, Sant Kabir Nagar, Gorakhpur, Bast of north-eastern Utar Pradesh. Districts of Paschim Champaran, Purbi Champaran, Gopalganj, Siwan, Sitamarhi, Muzafarpur, 12. Lower Gangetc Plains Saran, Buxar, Bhojpur, Patna, Rohatas, Jahanabad, Vaishali, Samastpur, Darbangha, Madhubani, Sheohar in North Bihar. Broadly includes the deltaic 24-Parganas districts, and the districts of Hoogly, Howrah, Nadia, 13. Gangetc Delta Bardhaman, Birbhum and Murshidabad. Districts of Singhbhum, Gumla, Ranchi, Lohardaga, Palamau and Hazaribagh and Santhal Pargana 14. Chotanagpur in Jharkhand and Mayurbhanj district in Orissa. Districts of Bastar, Bilaspur, Durg, Jashpur, Kabirdham, Kanker, Kirba, Koria, Mahasamund, 15. Bastar Kondaigaon, and Rajnangoan of Chatsgarh. Districts of Malkangiri, Sonabeda, Jeypore, Koraput, Nabrangpur, Kalahandi, Bolangir, Rayagada 16. Koraput of Orissa and districts of north eastern Andhra Pradesh, i.e., Srikakulam, Vijanagaram and Vizagapatnam. 17. Southern Eastern Ghats Districts of Chitoor, Ananthapur, Cuddapah and Kurnoolin Andhra Districts of Chengalput, South Arcot, North Arcot, Thiuvannamalai, 18. Kaveri Tiruchirapalli, Pudukotai, Thiruarur, Vellore, Kanchipuram, Dharmapuri, Salem, Namakkal, Karur and Dindigal. Districts of Jalna, Hingoli, Parbhani, Beed, Nanded, latur, Osmanabad, Solapur, Sangli, Gondia, 19. Deccan Gadchiroli in Maharashtra, districts of Adilabad, Karimnagar, Warangal and Khamman in Andhra Pradesh and districts of Bidar and Gulbarga in Karnataka. Coastal districts of Thane, Raigad, Ratnagiri, Sindhudurg and part of Sahyadri districts of Pune, 20. Konkan Satara and Kolhapur of Maharashtra, all the districts of Goa and Utar Kannda District of Karnataka. Districts of Kasargod, Kannur, Wayanad, Kozikode, Malappuram, Palakkad, Thrissur, ldukki, Ernakulam, Alappuza, Kollam, Kotayam, Pathanamthita & Thiruvananthpuram in Kerala, 21. Malabar Udhagamandalam (Nilgiri) and Kanyakumari districts of Tamil Nadu and districts of Dakshin Kannada, Kodagu and Udipi in Karnataka. 22. Islands Andaman and Nicobar Islands and lakshadweep

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May 2018 | Vol. 10 | No. 6 | Pages: 11703–11830 Date of Publicaton: 26 May 2018 (Online & Print) www.threatenedtaxa.org DOI: 10.11609/jot.2018.10.6.11703-11830

Communicatons Early stages and larval host plants of some northeastern Indian buterfies -- Tarun Karmakar, R. Nitn, Vivek Sarkar, Sarika Baidya, Subhajit Mazumder, Home range and spatal organizaton by the Hoary Fox Lycalopex vetulus V.K. Chandrasekharan, Rudraprasad Das, G.S. Girish Kumar, Swapnil (Mammalia: Carnivora: Canidae): response to social disrupton of two Lokhande, Joyce Veino, Lightson Veino, Rakoveine Veino, Zeeshan Mirza, neighboring pairs Rajesh V. Sanap, Bimal Sarkar & Krushnamegh Kunte, Pp. 11780–11799 -- Julio C. Dalponte, Herson S. Lima, Stuart Klorfne & Nelton C. da Luz, Pp. 11703–11709 Inventory of teloganodid mayfies (Ephemeroptera: Teloganodidae) from southern India with records of endemic taxa People’s attude towards wild elephants, forest conservaton and Human- -- C. Selvakumar, K.G. Sivaramakrishnan, T. Kubendran & Kailash Chandra, Elephant confict in Nilambur, southern Western Ghats of Kerala, India Pp. 11800–11805 -- C.K. Rohini, T. Aravindan, K.S. Anoop Das & P.A. Vinayan, Pp. 11710–11716

Analysis of regurgitated pellets of Spoted Owlet Athene brama Notes (Temminck, 1821) (Aves: Strigiformes: Strigidae) from Punjab, India -- Renuka Malhotra & Neena Singla, Pp. 11717–11724 Durga Das’s Leaf-nosed Bat Hipposideros durgadasi Khajuria, 1970 (Mammalia: Chiroptera: Hipposideridae): a new distributon record in Species diversity and abundance of birds on Bharathiar University Campus, northern India hidden in the Natonal Zoological Collectons Tamil Nadu, India -- M. Kamalakannan, Tauseef Hamid Dar & C. Venkatraman, Pp. 11806– -- L. Arul Pragasan & M. Madesh, Pp. 11725–11731 11811

On the taxonomy of the frst record of rare deep-water rough shark species A new range record of noctuid moth Owadaglaea elongata (Lepidoptera: of Oxynotdae (Chondrichthyes: Squaliformes) in the western Indian Ocean Noctuidae: Xyleninae) from India -- Sarah Viana & Mark W. Lisher, Pp. 11732–11742 -- P.R. Shashank & Balázs Benedek, Pp. 11812–11814

Forest evergreenness and tree endemism in the central Western Ghats, Natural history of Large Cabbage White Pieris brassicae nepalensis southern India Gray, 1846 (Lepidoptera: Pieridae) on Nasturtum, Tropaeolum majus -- Divakar K. Mesta & Ganesh R. Hegde, Pp. 11743–11752 (Tropaeolaceae) in Utarakhand, India -- Bhawana Kapkot Negi & Ravindra K. Joshi, Pp. 11815–11817 Distributon of Rhododendron falconeri Hook. F. (Ericales: Ericaceae) in Yuksam-Dzongri trekking corridor of Khangchendzonga Natonal Park, An account of the occurrence of Wedge Sea Hare Dolabella auricularia Sikkim, India (Lightoot, 1786) (Gastropoda: Aplysiidae) from Andaman Islands, India -- Aseesh Pandey & Hemant K. Badola, Pp. 11753–11759 -- Vikas Pandey, Ganesh Thiruchitrambalam, M. Savurirajan, Raj Kiran Lakra, Jawed Equbal, Kunal Satyam, P. Shanmukha Sainath & Rokkarukala Samson, Pp. 11818–11821 Peer Commentary New pteridophytc records from Mizoram, northeastern India The characteristcs, representatveness, functon and conservaton -- Sachin Sharma, Amit Kumar, Bhupendra Singh Kholia & Surendra Singh importance of tropical dry evergreen forest on India’s Coromandel Coast Bargali, Pp. 11822–11826 -- Mark Everard, Pp. 11760–11769 Clarke’s Morning Glory Ipomoea clarkei Hook.f. (Convolvulaceae): additon to the fora of Eastern Ghats Short Communicatons -- L. Rasingam, J. Swamy & M. Sankara Rao, Pp. 11827–11829

Mugger Crocodile Crocodylus palustris Lesson, 1831 (Reptlia: Crocodilia: Crocodylidae) in river Saberi of Godavari system in southern Odisha, India: Miscellaneous conservaton implicatons -- Subrat Debata, Swetashree Purohit, Anirban Mahata, Sudheer Kumar Jena Natonal Biodiversity Authority & Sharat Kumar Palita, Pp. 11770–11774 Member A new record of the lesser-known buterfy Small Woodbrown Lethe nicetella de Nicéville, 1887 (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae: Satyrinae) from Khangchendzonga Natonal Park, Sikkim, India -- Sailendra Dewan, Bhoj Kumar Acharya & Sudeep Ghatani, Pp. 11775–11779

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