Photographic record of the Eastern Bronzeback Tree Snake Dendrelaphis cf. proarchos (Wall, 1909) from Dudhwa Tiger Reserve, Uttar Pradesh, India

Authors

  • Vipin Kapoor Sainy 3/32, Dudhwa Hostel, Dudhwa Headquarters, Dudhwa Tiger Reserve Division, Palia Kalan, Lakhimpur Kheri, Uttar Pradesh 262902, India. https://orcid.org/0009-0001-7637-6018
  • Aqsa Jaseem Department of Wildlife Sciences, ITC-Building, Faculty of Life Sciences, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, Uttar Pradesh 202002, India. https://orcid.org/0009-0005-3919-2171
  • Rohit Ravi 3/29, WWF-India Field Office, Dudhwa Hostel, Dudhwa Headquarters, Dudhwa Tiger Reserve Division, Palia Kalan, Lakhimpur Kheri, Uttar Pradesh 262902, India. https://orcid.org/0009-0001-8796-9775
  • Apoorva Gupta 3/32, Dudhwa Hostel, Dudhwa Headquarters, Dudhwa Tiger Reserve Division, Palia Kalan, Lakhimpur Kheri, Uttar Pradesh 262902, India. https://orcid.org/0009-0008-5808-8398
  • H. Raja Mohan 3/32, Dudhwa Hostel, Dudhwa Headquarters, Dudhwa Tiger Reserve Division, Palia Kalan, Lakhimpur Kheri, Uttar Pradesh 262902, India. https://orcid.org/0009-0005-9445-3127
  • R. Jagadeesh 3/32, Dudhwa Hostel, Dudhwa Headquarters, Dudhwa Tiger Reserve Division, Palia Kalan, Lakhimpur Kheri, Uttar Pradesh 262902, India. https://orcid.org/0009-0004-1261-6643
  • Kirti Chaudhary North Kheri Forest Division (Buffer Zone), Dudhwa Tiger Reserve, Police Line, Lakhimpur Kheri, Uttar Pradesh 262701, India.

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.11609/jott.10510.18.6.29150-29153

Keywords:

First record, roadkill, snake diversity, Terai Arc Landscape, tree snake

Abstract

The Eastern Bronzeback Tree Snake Dendrelaphis proarchos (Wall, 1909), widely distributed across the Indo-Burma biodiversity hotspot, including northeastern India, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Myanmar, northern Laos, northern Vietnam, and southern China. In India, the species has been documented from several northeastern states, such as Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Mizoram, Meghalaya, Nagaland, Sikkim, Tripura, and West Bengal through museum and field records, with a few possibly human-mediated reports from western and central India (e.g., Gujarat, Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh). However, its occurrence in Uttar Pradesh has remained uncertain due to the absence of verifiable photographic or voucher-based evidence. Here, this study reports a photographic record of Dendrelaphis cf. proarchos from Uttar Pradesh, based on a road-killed individual recorded from the core area of Dudhwa Tiger Reserve. This sighting records the occurrence of Dendrelaphis cf. proarchos in Uttar Pradesh and contributes to a refined understanding of snake diversity in the Terai Arc Landscape.

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26-06-2026

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Vol. 18 No. 6 (2026)

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