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Dhule · DhuleWe redescribe Homoeocerus glossatus Ahmad & Parveen, 1994 based on specimens from Navadevi, Shirpur (Dist: Dhule Maharashtra), collected in August 2024, with detailed digital illustrations of morphology, including genitalia, improving the limited original description. We also record host plant of the species to be a Fabaceae member: Milletia pinnata (L.) Panigrahi. This species was originally described based on specimens collected from Kerala, s…Read Article
Redescription of a leaf-footed bug <Homoeocerus glossatus> Ahmad & Perveen (Heteroptera: Coreidae) from Dhule, Maharashtra, India

Jammu and Kashmir · Jammu and KashmirDocumenting biodiversity distribution at regional levels is essential to addressing the Wallacean shortfall in global biodiversity understanding. This is exemplified in the northwestern Himalaya, where Acrospelion alpestre—a grass species native to subalpine and alpine meadows of Europe—has now been recorded for the first time in India. Populations were documented across Kashmir, Ladakh, Pangi Valley, and the Valley of Flowers—part of the Nanda …Read Article
<Acrospelion alpestre> (Aveneae: Poaceae) in India: a new generic record from northwestern Himalaya

Species · MaharashtraA new species Xiphidiogonus sinispinus sp. nov. is described and illustrated from Satara district, Maharashtra State. The new species belongs to tribe Polydrepanini (Family Paradoxosomatidae). The genus was established by Carl (1932) with three new species from Tamil Nadu state. No report prior to this have been reported from Maharashtra, we are introducing first report of genus Xiphidiogonus with a novel species from Maharashtra. The new specie…Read Article