What fruit is the turtle eating?
Turtle ID: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/197360171
http://iaat.org.in/images/Rheedea_downloads/Rheedea_25_2/Rheedea_252_146-147.pdf
Also see eflora of India
Image source: https://www.flickr.com/photos/dinesh_valke/3892801118/
As per communication with Dr. Jaap Vermuelen in 2005, this was an undescribed species at the time, however I am not certain if it has since been described.
Rhagodima cf. nigrocincta
Cincta (cinctus, cinctum) in latin means "surrounded by". So the portmanteau "nigrocincta" can mean "surrounding by black color". This might refer to colors and patterns on the abdomen of this species. Or it may not refer to black patches on some legs which does not form full circle/ring as in R. Annulata.
But these informations are not clear to me as per the description by Henry Meyners Bernard who described the species as Rhax nigrocincta along with Rhax Howesii (currently assigned as Rhagodes melanopygus). Another information I can find is that as per Simon's 1885 description R. annulata has body length of 18mm and as per Bernard's description of R. nigrocincta is around 1.25 to 2 inches. T̶h̶e̶ ̶s̶p̶e̶c̶i̶m̶e̶n̶ ̶w̶e̶ ̶s̶a̶w̶ ̶w̶a̶s̶ ̶a̶r̶o̶u̶n̶d̶ ̶1̶.̶2̶ ̶t̶o̶ ̶1̶.̶5̶ ̶i̶n̶c̶h̶e̶s̶ ̶l̶o̶n̶g̶.̶ (The specimen was just 2 cms long after I re-checked the video where it climbed to my friend's hand. Videograb is attached as last photo.)
Henry Meyners Bernard's 1894 article on the species called "On two new species of Rhax. Journal of Linnean Soicety London" can be read here: https://ww.rcin.org.pl/dlibra/publication/88759/edition/67942/content?ref=struct
The illustrations on the book has been digitized and uploaded to Wiki Commons over here:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Rhagodima_nigrocincta.jpg
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Rhagodima_nigrocincta_cutted.jpg
Comparing the images above I can see similar black patches on the legs. Also the white moustache pattern has good resemblance on the individual. But I don't see the spurs specified in illustrations.
Note: I am not conforming on the species level identification here. I have just added my notes here for future reference for anybody who wants to take this subject for research.
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very rare plant and i got opportunity to collect it from its type locality Karong
slug moth caterpillar
Image source: https://www.flickr.com/photos/dinesh_valke/2767157243/
Image source:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/dinesh_valke/22657722251/
https://www.flickr.com/photos/dinesh_valke/22620502126/
https://www.flickr.com/photos/dinesh_valke/22025385063/
https://www.flickr.com/photos/dinesh_valke/22646558525/
https://www.flickr.com/photos/dinesh_valke/22646607095/
https://www.flickr.com/photos/dinesh_valke/22458715150/
https://www.flickr.com/photos/dinesh_valke/22458754540/
https://www.flickr.com/photos/dinesh_valke/22646728865/
https://www.flickr.com/photos/dinesh_valke/22023993934/
Many thanks to Shrikant Ingalhalikar for the ID.
commonly known as: Dalzell's walnut • Kannada: ಕಾಮಟ್ಟಿ kamatti • Konkani: मैदो लकडी maido lakdi • Marathi: कामट्टी kamatti
Names compiled / updated at Names of Plants in India
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https://www.flickr.com/photos/dinesh_valke/15245568542/
https://www.flickr.com/photos/dinesh_valke/14576519804/
https://www.flickr.com/photos/dinesh_valke/14576443914/
https://www.flickr.com/photos/dinesh_valke/14576518844/
https://www.flickr.com/photos/dinesh_valke/14391866947/
Many thanks to Dr Ravi Chandran for the genus ID ... facebook.
Many thanks to Dr. E.S. Santhosh Kumar for the ID ... efloraofindia.
Image source:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/dinesh_valke/14536072935/
https://www.flickr.com/photos/dinesh_valke/14553634813/
Thanks to Jeewan Singh for the ID ... facebook.
Like a lily. Bloomed in laterite plateau region around water. In patches. Only seen blooms now in July.
This species is newly described - Croton chakrabartyi Dhabak & Nandikar ... albeit it was always mistaken for Croton gibsonianus Nimmo ... until Dr Mayur Nandikar and his team rediscovered the real Croton gibsonianus after 170 years from the type locality in Maharashtra.
commonly known as: Chakrabarty's croton
Names compiled / updated at Names of Plants in India.
Image source:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/dinesh_valke/7197985984/
https://www.flickr.com/photos/dinesh_valke/7198020122/
https://www.flickr.com/photos/dinesh_valke/7198014996/
https://www.flickr.com/photos/dinesh_valke/7198010514/
https://www.flickr.com/photos/dinesh_valke/7198005950/
https://www.flickr.com/photos/dinesh_valke/7198001778/
https://www.flickr.com/photos/dinesh_valke/7197997410/
https://www.flickr.com/photos/dinesh_valke/7197990768/
https://www.flickr.com/photos/dinesh_valke/7197981850/
https://www.flickr.com/photos/dinesh_valke/7197977538/
https://www.flickr.com/photos/dinesh_valke/7197973242/
https://www.flickr.com/photos/dinesh_valke/7198055346/
Many thanks to Shrikant Ingalhalikar and Prashant Awale for the ID.
lycaenid pupa on Argiope egg sac
I was very surprised to see this lycaenid pupa inside eggsac of signature spider.
lycaenid pupa.
Without any intention i just opened egg sac of argiope, which was there in our Banyan bonsai plant. Spiderlings had come out of egg sac two weeks back. I wanted to check silk layering inside.
while opening this i accidentally found this butterfly pupa.
Is this common behavior, or even this is exceptional / accidental.
February 28, 2021
Indraprastha,
Mysuru.
Described as a new species in 2016,Seidenfadenialla salimii is said to be endemic to Southern Western Ghats
Many thanks to Ryan Brookes (Mahad) for the ID at flickr.
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