Macrochlamys indica Godwin-Austen, 1883

Singh, Sandeep, Sandhu, Rajwinder Kaur & Aravind, N. A., 2020, Record of pestiferous land snail, Macrochlamys indica Godwin-Austen 1883 (Gastropoda: Ariophantidae), on citrus and guava plants in Punjab, India, Records of the Zoological Survey of India 120 (3), pp. 293-296 : 294

Macrochlamys indica Godwin-Austen, 1883

1883. Macrochlamys indica Godwin-Austen, Land and Freshwater Mollusca of India, 1: 97, pl. 18, figs. 1- 8b, pl. 21, fig. 1, pl. 25, figs. 9, 10

Materials examined: 10 ex., Mohinder Singh Randhawa Fruit Research Station , Gangian , District Hoshiarpur and University Seed Farm , Ladhowal, District Ludhiana, Punjab, India; 19.xii.2019; coll. Sandeep Singh.

Diagnostic features: Description as per Blanford & Godwin-Austen (1908) is as follows: shell perforate, depressed, smooth, polished throughout, translucent, pale brownish tawny; striations on the shell indistinct, but with microscopic longitudinal impressed lines, slightly flexuous and not close together; spire low, conoid; suture slightly impressed; shell slightly convex above; last whorl not descending, rounded at the periphery and moderately convex beneath; aperture slightly oblique and broadly lunate; peristome thin, with columellar margin curved, oblique, and quite vertical, carried forward and briefly reflected above, animal body purplish grey and elongated.

Whorls 5.5; shell length 18.15± 2.12mm; shell width

15.09± 2.12mm, whorls 5.5 (n=10).

Distribution: INDIA: It is widely distributed across almost all states except for drier regions in the North Western India ( Raut & Ghose, 1984; Mitra et al., 2004). The confirmed reports are from, Andaman Islands ( Raut & Ghose, 1984), Assam ( Borkakati et al., 2009), Bihar, Delhi, Maharashtra, Odisha, West Bengal, Tamil Nadu ( Kumar & Ahmed, 2000; Palit & Palit, 2014), Kerala, Punjab ( Kaur & Chhabra, 2011), Karnataka ( Jayashankar et al., 2015). Elsewhere: Nepal ( Budha et al., 2015), Bangladesh ( Jahan et al., 2002), Sri Lanka (https://www.nhm.ac.uk/ our-science/data/tropical-land-snails/taxa.dsml), pest in many parts of the world.

Host Plants: It has been reported as a pest of several horticultural and agricultural plants which includes cucurbits ( Luffa sp. ), beans ( Phaseolus vulgaris ), lettuce ( Lactuca sativa ), cole crops ( Brassica sp. ), drumstick ( Moringa oleifera ), purple amaranth ( Amaranthus blitum ), Okra ( Abelmoschus esculentus ), Marigold ( Tagetes sp. ), Bottle gourd ( Lagenaria vulgaris ) and Daisy ( Chrysanthemum sp. ) ( Raut & Ghose, 1984), paper flower ( Bougainvillea sp. ), Ribbon grass ( Phalaris arundinacea ) and Money plant ( Epipremnum aureum ) ( Subba Rao, 1975) and neem seedlings ( Kumar & Ahmed, 2000).