HTTPS://JOURNALS.KU.EDU/REPTILESANDAMPHIBIANSTABLE OF CONTENTS IRCF REPTILES & AMPHIBIANSREPTILES • VOL &15, AMPHIBIANS NO 4 • DEC 2008 • 27(3):454–455189 • DEC 2020 IRCF REPTILES & AMPHIBIANS CONSERVATION AND NATURAL HISTORY TABLE OF CONTENTS FEATURE MosquitoesARTICLES (Uranotaenia sp.) . Chasing Bullsnakes (Pituophis catenifer sayi) in Wisconsin: BitingOn the Road to Understandingan Indian the Ecology and Conservation Golden-backed of the Midwest’s Giant Serpent ...................... Joshua M. FrogKapfer 190 . The Shared History of Treeboas (Corallus grenadensis) and Humans on Grenada: A Hypothetical Excursion( ............................................................................................................................Indosylvirana indica)Robert W. Henderson 198 RESEARCH ARTICLES . The Texas Horned Lizard in CentralYatin and Kalki Western1,2, TexasRobin ....................... Huizinga Emily1, and Henry, Merlin Jason Brewer, Weiss Krista1,3 Mougey, and Gad Perry 204 . The Knight Anole (Anolis equestris) in Florida 1 Agumbe ............................................. Rainforest Research Station,Brian J. Camposano, Agumbe, KarnatakaKenneth L. Krysko, 577411, Kevin India M. Enge,([email protected] Ellen M. Donlan, and Michael[corresponding Granatosky author]) 212 2Madras Crocodile Bank Trust/Centre for Herpetology, Mamallapuram, Tamil Nadu 603104, India CONSERVATION3Van Hall Larenstein University ALERT of Applied Sciences, Leeuwarden, Friesland 8934 CJ, The Netherlands ([email protected]) . World’s Mammals in Crisis ............................................................................................................................................................. 220 . More Than Mammals ...................................................................................................................................................................... 223 . The “Dow Jones Index” of Biodiversity ........................................................................................................................................... 225 he Indian Golden-backedHUSBANDRY Frog (Indosylvirana indica) is stream running through primary forest in Agumbe, Karnataka a ranid found in the rainforests of the Western Ghats (13°31'6.19"N, 75°5'28.65"W; WGS 84; elev. 556 m asl). T . Captive Care of the Central Netted Dragon ....................................................................................................... Shannon Plummer 226 of Karnataka and Kerala in India (Biju et al. 2014). These Approximately eight mosquitoes were flying around the frogs frogs occur in highPROFILE densities around seasonal and perennial and three mosquitoes appeared to be biting the dorsum of one streams in primary. Kraig forests Adler: Ain Lifetime the Promotingvicinity Herpetology of the ................................................................................................Agumbe (Fig. 1). Shortly afterwards, Michael we L. observedTreglia 234 another individual Rainforest ResearchCOMMENTARY Station, Agumbe, Karnataka (pers. obs.; diving under the water in an apparent attempt to avoid the Purushotham and Tapley. The Turtles 2011). Have Been During Watching the Me breeding........................................................................................................................ season, mosquitoes. The mosquitoes wereEric Gangloff identified 238 as Uranotaenia sp. males call from shallowBOOK waterREVIEW (pers. obs.) and females lay eggs Multiple species of Uranotaenia have been recorded from in the shallow periphery. Threatened of streams Amphibians (Biju of the Worldet al. edited 2014). by S.N. Stuart, M. Hoffmann,the Western J.S. Chanson, Ghats N.A. (Munirathinam Cox, et al. 2014; Munirathinam At about 2130 hR. on Berridge, 5 February P. Ramani, and 2020, B.E. Young we .............................................................................................................. observed a et al. 2015) including species Robert described Powell 243 as recently as two group of three male I. indica calling from a shallow section of a years ago (Natarajan et al. 2018). Mosquitoes in the genus CONSERVATION RESEARCH REPORTS: Summaries of Published Conservation Research Reports ................................. 245 NATURAL HISTORY RESEARCH REPORTS: Summaries of Published Reports on Natural History ................................. 247 NEWBRIEFS ...................................................................................................................................................................................... 248 EDITORIAL INFORMATION ..................................................................................................................................................... 251 FOCUS ON CONSERVATION: A Project You Can Support ............................................................................................... 252 Front Cover. Shannon Plummer. Back Cover. Michael Kern Totat et velleseque audant mo Totat et velleseque audant mo estibus inveliquo velique rerchil estibus inveliquo velique rerchil erspienimus, quos accullabo. Ilibus erspienimus, quos accullabo. Ilibus aut dolor apicto invere pe dolum aut dolor apicto invere pe dolum fugiatis maionsequat eumque fugiatis maionsequat eumque moditia erere nonsedis ma sectiatur moditia erere nonsedis ma sectia- ma derrovitae voluptam, as quos tur ma derrovitae voluptam, as accullabo. Fig. 1. Indian Golden-backed Frog (Indosylvirana indica) with mosquitoes (Uranotaenia sp.) on its dorsum. Photograph by Yatin Kalki. Copyright is held by the authors. Articles in R&A are made available under a 454 Reptiles & Amphibians ISSN 1098-6324 Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International license. KALKI ET AL. REPTILES & AMPHIBIANS • 27(3):454–455 • DEC 2020 Uranotaenia in other parts of the world are known to feed biodiversity hotspot, with the description of seven new species. Contributions on frogs and some have even been identified as anuran spe- to Zoology 83: 269–335. Borkent, A. and P. Belton. 2006. Attraction of female Uranotaenia lowii (Diptera: cialists (Borkent and Belton 2006; Sorokin and Steigerwald Culicidae) to frog calls in Costa Rica. Entomological Society of Canada 138: 91–94. 2017; Toma et al. 2019). Camp et al. (2018) noted that Camp, J.V., T. Bakonyi, Z. Soltesz, T. Zechmeister, and N. Nowotny. 2018. Uranotaenia unguiculata uses the calls of male frogs as cues to Uranotaenia unguiculata Edwards, 1913 are attracted to sound, feed on amphibians, and are infected with multiple viruses. Parasites & Vectors 11: 456. locate their prey, and de Silva et al. (2020) described a mos- de Silva, W.A.P.P., X.E. Bernal, W.G.D. Chathuranga, B.P. Herath, C. Ekanayake, quito community that exhibited host-partitioning (i.e., each H.T.K. Abeysundara, and S.H.P.P. Karunaratne. 2020. Feeding pat- mosquito species will have one or more unique host anuran tern revealed host partitioning in a community of frog-biting mosquitoes. Ecological Entomology 45: 988–996. species). Further research is warranted on the relationships Munirathinam, A., R. Krishnamoorthi, G. Baskaran, R. Govindarajan, A. between mosquitoes and their anuran prey in the Western Venkatesh, and B.K. Tyagi. 2014. Mosquito species biodiversity in Ghats of India. Phytotelmata from Western Ghats, south India. Halteres 5: 56–63. Munirathinam, A., R. Krishnamoorthi, G. Baskaran, R. Govindarajan, A. Veerapathiran, A. Venkatesh, and B.K. Tyagi. 2015. Mosquito diversity in Acknowledgements Keeriparai and Mundanthurai hill ranges of the Western Ghats, southern We thank the Madras Crocodile Bank Trust and Centre India. Journal of Threatened Taxa 7: 7552–7556. for Herpetology for supporting research at the Agumbe Natarajan, R., A.R. Rajavel, and P. Jambulingam. 2018. Uranotaenia pseudostrick- landi, a new species in subgenus Pseudoficalbia (Diptera: Culicidae) from Rainforest Research Station. We also thank Anton Sorokin, Kerala, India. Zootaxa 4429: 181–188. Ellie Field, Amanda Tokash-Peters, and Kristin Sloyer for Purushotham, C.B. and B. Tapley. 2011. Checklist of amphibians: Agumbe confirming the identity of the mosquitoes. Rainforest Research Station. FrogLog 16: 2–14. Sorokin, A. and E. Steigerwald. 2017. Ameerega trivittata (Three-striped Poison Frog). Ectoparasitism. Herpetological Review 48: 407–408. Literature Cited Toma, T., T. Takara, I. Miyagi, K. Futami, and Y. Higa. 2019. Mosquitoes and Biju, S.D., S. Garg, S. Mahony, N. Wijayathilaka, G. Senevirathne, and M. frog-biting midges (Diptera: Culicidae and Corethrellidae) attracted to traps Meegaskumbura. 2014. 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