St. Joseph's College, Devagiri

About: St. Joseph's College, Devagiri is a based out in . It is known for research contribution in the topics: Dung beetle & Scarabaeinae. The organization has 61 authors who have published 71 publications receiving 778 citations. The organization is also known as: St. Joseph's College.

Second-step lectotypification of three names of Araceae from India

Abstract: During a taxonomic revision of the genus Arisaema (Araceae) in India, three names, i.e. Arisaema echinatum, A. leschenaultii and A. nepenthoides were found to lack a proper typification. The erroneous lectotypifications are rectified by selecting lectotypes.

Ochicanthon fernandoi: a replacement name for the primary junior homonym O . vazdemelloi Latha and Sabu 2011 (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Scarabaeinae)

Abstract: Ochicanthon vazdemelloi Latha & Sabu 2011, a wingless new species of dung beetle, was described from the tropical montane cloud forests in the Western Ghats, India (Latha et al . 2011). Authors named the species after Fernando Z. Vaz-de-Mello (Universidade Federal de Mato Grosso, Cuiaba, Brazil). However, we discovered after publication that this species name was a primary junior homonym of another Ochicanthon species from Sumatra: Ochicanthon vazdemelloi Ochi, Kon & Hartini, 2009 (Ochi et al . 2009). Hence, Ochicanthon fernandoi Sabu & Latha, new name is here proposed as a replacement name for Ochicanthon vazdemelloi Latha & Sabu 2011.

Biological Control Potential of the Scuttle Fly, Megaselia scalaris (Loew) (Diptera: Phoridae), on the Home-Invading Pest Luprops tristis (Fabricius) (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae)

Abstract: The utility of the cosmopolitan scuttle fly, Megaselia scalaris (Loew, 1866) (Diptera: Phoridae), as a biological control agent of the litter-dwelling darkling beetle Luprops tristis (Fabricius, 1801) (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae), a serious home-invading pest of southern India, is reported. In the laboratory, M. scalaris parasitized dormant, aggregated populations of L. tristis. Megaselia scalaris completed its life cycle by feeding on the decaying substrate consisting of dead L. tristis and their excreta. Megaselia scalaris larvae fed on the viscera of parasitized L. tristis within a day and were not deterred by the defensive gland secretion of the host. The scuttle fly preferred L. tristis as a food source even when an alternative organic food source was available, and it parasitized only inactive L. tristis. Our results are contrary to the presently existing conclusion that facultative parasitism by M. scalaris in laboratory cultures of target organisms makes it unsuitable as a biological control agent of L. tristis.

A new Caccobius dung beetle (Scarabaeidae) from the Western Ghats of India

Abstract: This study describes a new dung beetle Caccobiusdevagiriensissp. nov. belonging to the subgenus Caccophilus from the Kerala part of Western Ghats, India. A key to the species of the subgenus Caccophilus from Indian subcontinent is also provided. Caccobius ultor Sharp and Caccobius rufipennis Motschulsky are documented as new records.

Blue Mountain and Blue Roses: An Exploration of the Feminine Psyche in Tennessee Williams’ The Glass Menagerie

Abstract: Tennessee Williams, the remarkably outstanding American dramatist of the 1920s, through his plays, presents a marked concern for the identity crisis a woman faces He projects the crisis arising out of the conflict between a woman’s own aspirations and the traditional role expectations The Glass Menagerie (1945) depicts the life of two women- Amanda Wingfield and her daughter Laura Wingfield Amanda is the typical Southern belle that suffered a reversal of economic and social fortune, who withdraws from reality into fantasy Her daughter Laura, the physically and emotionally crippled heroine of the play is a self-less character who does not speak as much of others She is extra-ordinarily sensitive and delicate; and her cripple isolates herself into her own illusory world with her own glass menagerie This paper is an attempt to close study the women protagonists in this play and to reveal that they are a combination of a particular personality type Williams seems to be interested in the personal and psychological aspects of his women This paper tries to analyse the psyche of these women and prove that they seem to be more complex and complicated than portrayed in the work