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
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Charaxes solon
Fabricius, 1793
Common name
: Black Rajah (
Figure 6
)
Salient characters:
Underside silvery grey, narrow wavy black lines with sub marginal and marginal yellowish green spots and crescents on under hind wing.
Remarks:
Individuals were observed flying and mud puddling in and around the flowers of
Ageratum conyzoides
and
Lantana camara
along the shore of river near to the forest area between the elevation ranges of
320-360 m
amsl.
Imaging date
:
17-VIII-2017
.
Old distribution:
India
:
Andhra Pradesh
,
Assam
,
Delhi
, Goa,
Gujarat
,
Himachal Pradesh
,
Kerala
,
Madhya Pradesh
,
Rajasthan
,
Sikkim
,
Tamil Nadu
, Telangana and
West Bengal
. Wide distribution reported from Southeast Asia (
Sri Lanka
and
Bangladesh
). (
Varshney and Smetacek, 2015
; Kehimkar, 2014, 2016; Paul Van Gasse, 2018; Sondhi and
Kunte, 2018
;
Kunte
et al
., 2018
).
New distribution
: J&K (near Mansar Lake, Jammu).
IUCN threat status
: Not yet worked out, but the species included in catalogue of life.