An annotated checklist of odonates of Amboli-Chaukul-Parpoli region showing new records for the Maharashtra State, India with updated state checklist

Abstract

Amboli region, consisting Amboli, Chaukul, Nene, and Parpoli villages is one of the biodiversity rich areas in northern Western Ghats. We opportunistically surveyed odonates from the region and prepared an annotated checklist of 93 species belonging to 12 families. We report 15 Western Ghats endemic species and six new records for the State of Maharashtra. We further present an updated checklist of Odonata of Maharashtra state with a total of 144 species.

Three new records of odonates (Insecta: Odonata) from Sindhudurg District, Maharashtra, India

“…It also has a diverse range of habitats, including grassland, open lateritic plateaus, wetlands, mangroves, and freshwater swamps (Satose et al 2018;Sreedharan & Indulkar 2018). Recent documentation of Odonata diversity of the Sindhudurg District resulted in more than 90 species of odonates documented from Amboli & Chaukul village, recognised as one of the most biodiverse regions of Maharashtra State (Tiple & Koparde 2015;Sawant et al 2022Sawant et al , 2023. Ten out of them resulted in the new records to the state of Maharashtra.…”

“…Sawant et al (2022) added M. cora into the checklist of Maharashtra based on photographic evidence available at 'Odonata India' (Joshi et al 2017). Here we provide some additional records of this species to the Maharashtra State based on photographic evidence from Oros dam and Chipi plateau, Sindhudurg District (Image 5a).This paper fills the gap of the disjunct distribution of the genus Dysphaea into the northern and central Western Ghats Sawant et al (2022). provided an annotated checklist of 93 Odonata species from Amboli-Chaukul and Parpoli region with the addition of total six species to the state of Maharashtra.…”