New records of butterflies (Lepidoptera: Insecta) from Jammu and Kashmir Himalaya Author Sheikh, Taslima Author Parey, Sajad H. text Records of the Zoological Survey of India 2019 119 4 463 473 journal article 10.26515/rzsi/v119/i4/2019/144197 2581-8686 13185796 Elymnias hypermnestra Linnaeus, 1763 ( Figure 3 ) Common name: Common Palmfly Salient characters: Male has black upperside forewings with minute patches, forewing with a broad triangular pale purplish-white pre-apical mark, while, female upper side tawny, veins black, forewing dorsal margin broadly black. Remarks: Individuals were recorded flying around Murraya koenigii and Crinum sp. flowering twigs at the elevation of 327 m amsl. Imaging date: 17-X-2016 . Old distribution: India : Assam , Andhra Pradesh , Arunachal Pradesh , Chhatisgarh, Gujarat , Kerala , Maharashtra , Mizoram , Odhisa, Punjab , Sikkim , Tripura , Uttarakhand and West Bengal . Wide distribution recorded from South Asia. ( Varshney and Smetacek, 2015 ; Kehimkar, 2014, 2016; Paul Van Gasse, 2018; Sondhi and Kunte, 2018 ; Kunte et al ., 2018 ). New distribution : J&K (Raika Environment Park, Jammu). IUCN threat status: Not yet worked out, but the species included in catalogue of life.