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
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4
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journal article
10.26515/rzsi/v119/i4/2019/144197
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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.