ISSN 2230 – 7052 Newsletter of the $WIU4#NNInvertebrate Conservation & Information Network of South Asia (ICINSA) No. 22, MAY 2016 C. Sunil Kumar Photo: CONTENTS Pages Authenc report of Ceresium leucosccum White (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae: Callidiopini) from Pune and Satara in Maharashtra State --- Paripatyadar, S., S. Gaikwad and H.V. Ghate ... 2-3 First sighng of the Apefly Spalgis epeus epeus Westwood, 1851 (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae: Milenae: Spalgini) from the Garhwal Himalaya --- Sanjay Sondhi ... 4-5 On a collecon of Odonata (Insecta) from Lonar (Crater) Lake and its environs, Buldhana district, Maharashtra, India --- Muhamed Jafer Palot ... 6-9 Occurrence of Phyllodes consobrina Westwood 1848 (Noctuidae: Lepidoptera) from Southern Western Ghats, India and a review of distribuonal records --- Prajith K.K., Anoop Das K.S., Muhamed Jafer Palot and Longying Wen ... 10-11 First Record of Gerosis bhagava Moore 1866 (Lepidoptera: Hesperiidae) from Bangladesh --- Ashis Kumar Daa ... 12 Present status on some common buerflies in Rahara area, West Bengal --- Wrick Chakraborty & Partha P. Biswas ... 13-17 Addions to the Buerfly fauna of Sundarbans Mangrove Forest, Bangladesh --- Ashis Kumar Daa ... 18 Study on buerfly (Papilionoidea) diversity of Bilaspur city --- Shubhada Rahalkar ... 19-23 Bio-ecology of Swallowtail (Lepidoptera:Papilionidae) Buerflies in Gautala Wildlife Sanctuary of Maharashtra India -- Shinde S.S. Nimbalkar R.K. and Muley S.P. ... 24-26 New report of midge gall (Diptera: Cecidomyiidae) on Ziziphus xylopyrus (Retz.) Willd. (Rhamnaceae) from Northern Western Ghats. Mandar N. Datar and R.M. Sharma ... 27 Rapid assessment of buerfly diversity in a ecotone adjoining Bannerghaa Naonal Park, South Bengaluru Alexander R. Avinash K. Phalke S. Manidip M. and Jayashankar M. ... 28-29 Aquac Insect Fauna and Diversity in five different sites of Loktak Lake of Manipur, North East India M. Bhubaneshwari Devi, O. Sandhyarani Devi and Salam Dineshwar Singh ... 30-36 A note on structure of nest of a mud dauber wasp, Sceliphron sp. in Solapur, Maharashtra --- S.R. Aland, S.S. Kalshe, M.J. Khobare and S.A. Shaikh ... 37 Bugs R Al, No. 22 - May 2016 # 1 Authenc report of Ceresium leucosccum White (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae: Callidiopini) from Pune and Satara in Maharashtra State 1Paripatyadar, S., 2S. Gaikwad and 3H.V. Ghate 1 Abasaheb Garware College, Pune, 2 Yashvantrav Chavan Instute of Science, Satara, 3 Modern College of Arts, Science and Commerce, Shivajinagar, Pune. E-mail: [email protected] A small, reddish black to black longicorn beetle, with a paern of chalk-white spots on prothorax, elytra and underside was collected at two places in Maharashtra State, namely Satara and Pune (Talegaon). The Satara specimen was a female (coll: S. Gaikwad, vii.2014) and Pune specimen was a male (coll: S. Paripatyadar, 6.vii. 2014). The keys provided in Gahan (1906) showed this cerambycid beetle to be Ceresium leucosccum White. The beetle was originally described and illustrated by White (1855) [from E. Fig 1. Male Ceresium leuco - live, Talegaon. Photo Shruti India]; Gahan (1906) again gave descripon, along with a drawing, and added addional localies, within the then Brish India, such as ‘Assam, Burma, Siam and Sumatra’, of which only Assam is in Indian Territory now. Duffy (1968), who studied immature stages of the Oriental Cerambycidae, stated this species to be distributed in ‘Assam, Bihar, Madras, Maharashtra and Uar Pradesh’. Gressi, Rondon and Breuning (1970) reported this species from Laos (as well as Burma, Hainan, Thailand, Sumatra, and in Laos: Throughout Mekong Valley and adjacent plateau) and stated that the paern of white spots was variable, and somemes the elytral spots may be absent or indisnct. In some images available on the internet the posterior pair of spots on prothorax is in the form of thin, somewhat oblique line (hp://catalog.digitalarchives.tw/item/00/65/a3/ d8.html). Similar colouraon is shown in this species found Fig 2. Dorsal view of female - full gray back in China (Hua Li-Zhong et al 2009) and the stated distribuon is: ‘Taiwan, Hainan, Yunnan, India, Myanmar, different localies indicates that it has viable populaon in Thailand, Laos and Indonesia’. Mukhopadhyay and Biswas Maharashtra, and perhaps elsewhere in Western India. (2000) also menoned the presence of this species in Meghalaya, based on old collecon made by Kemp in 1917; As both earlier workers, White apparently no new collecon was at hand. (1855) and later Gahan (1906), have given adequate descripon Most of the records of this species in India are thus from of this beetle, and a habitus north-east and we are not aware of any publicaon drawing, this note only intends to reporng this species from Maharashtra or Western India, illustrate salient features of this except that of Duffy (1968), where exact locality in species with digital images. A few Maharashtra is not given. Ghate (2012) presented a list of characters will only be menoned. the known and personally checked Cerambycidae of Fig 3. Dorsal view of Maharashtra, but ll then this species was not collected in head & prothorax Male and female are of the same this State and Duffy’s record was overlooked. This report is coloraon and size (about 11 mm therefore a definite collecon record of Ceresium long): black on head, prothorax and elytra, but with leucosccum from Maharashtra State. This report antennae, a narrow area around elytral suture and legs highlights the fact that true distribuon of many disnctly reddish brown. Antennae in male are longer than Cerambycidae (and many other insect groups) in India is not body (last three segments projecng beyond elytral p), known or is obscure. Presence of this species in two while in the female only slightly longer than body. All body is covered with white, decumbent hairs and there is a Bugs R Al, No. 22 - May 2016 # 2 white short seta. Ventrally again the insect is predominantly black with white pubescence near prosternum, on lateral part of mesoventrite and metaventrite. Abdominal segments also have chalk-white small patches at the sides but these may not be fully seen in ventral view (especially in female) but in lateral view only (Fig. 5). Legs of moderate length, all femora swollen in the middle, hind femur not extending the p of abdomen, bia carinate. Full ventral view of the same female is also shown (Fig. 6). There are many interesng species of insects in the Fig 4. Triplet of spots Western Ghats and adjacent areas but invertebrates in general are oen ignored. It is essenal that more aenon is paid to invertebrates because the hotspots are sll recognized on the basis of vertebrates only. Acknowledgements Authors are grateful to the authories of Modern College, Pune 5, for facilies and encouragement. HVG also thanks BCUD, University of Pune, for providing funding during 2007-08, helping him to carry further work on these Fig 5. Lateral view of Ceresium leuco beetles. Ms. S.A. Gaikwad thanks Dr. S. Nalawade for help and encouragement provided in Satara. References Duffy, E.A.J. (1968). A Monograph of the Immature Stages 0f Oriental Timber Beetles (Ceramycidae). The Brish Museum (Natural History), publicaon number 667, London, pp. 435, 18 plates. Gahan, C.J., (1906). The Fauna of Brish India including Ceylon and Burma. Coleoptera - Volume 1, Cerambycidae. Taylor and Francis, London, pp 329. Ghate, H.V. (2012). Insects: Coleoptera: Cerambycidae. In: State Fauna Series, 20, Fauna of Maharashtra, Zoological Survey of India, Kolkata, part 2, pages 503-505. Gressi, J.L., J. A. Rondon & S. von Breuning (1970). Cerambycid-beetles of Laos (Longicornes du Laos). Pacific Fig 6. Ventral view of Ceresium leuco Insects Monograph, 24 (i-vi): 1-651. paern of chalk-white spots on prothorax and elytra as Hua, Li-Zhong, N. Hajime, G.A. Samuelson and S.W. seen from dorsal side (Figs. 1, 2). In the female examined Lingafelter (2009). Iconography of Chinese Longicorn here the spots at the apical region appear as two separate Beetles in color. Sun Yat-Sen University Press, Guangzhon. spots per elytron while in the male these are almost Pp. 474, color plates 126. confluent forming one spot per elytron. Eyes are large and Mukhopadhyay, P. and S. Biswas (2000). Coleoptera: coarsely faceed. Prothorax is longer than broad, slightly Cerambycidae. In: State Fauna Series 4, Fauna of rounded at the sides, coarsely punctured all over except the Meghalaya, Zoological Survey of India, Kolkata, part 5, median longitudinal line which is smooth and glossy, with pages 41-67. all 4 chalk-white spots visible from dorsal side (Fig. 3). White, A. (1855). Catalogue of Coleopterous insects in The Collecon of The Brish Museum, Part VIII, Longicornia II. Elytra with a total of nine spots: one sutural spot just Brish Museum. Pp 409 + Plates. behind the scutellum (which is also white), a triplet of spots behind the sutural spot, but in front of the middle of each elytron (Fig. 4), and a pair of spots anterior to the apex (this pair may be very close or in the form of a single transverse spot). Elytral punctures are disnct in the proximal one third but fine in the distal part and each puncture has a Bugs R Al, No. 22 - May 2016 # 3 First sighng of the Apefly Spalgis epeus epeus Westwood, 1851 (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae: Milenae: Spalgini) from the Garhwal Himalaya Sanjay Sondhi Titli Trust, 49 Rajpur Road Enclave, Dhoran Khas, Dehradun, Uarakhand 248001 Email: [email protected] Introduc'on On 10 November 2013 at 1130 hours, a single individual of The buerflies of Uarakhand have been well studied by the Apefly Spalgis epeus epeus (Fig. 1) was recorded from lepidopterists in the last 150 years. Amongst the earliest scrub forest on the banks of the River Song near Maldevta, publicaons with a checklist of the area was a list of on the outskirts of Dehradun (Fig.