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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Moduza procris
Cramer, 1777
(
Figure 10
)
Common name:
Commander
Salient characters:
The upper side of their wings bright reddish brown and centre of wings with white spots, hind wings with crenulated margins and underside whitish grey towards the base and row of dull reddish brown or black spot along the margins.
Remarks:
Individuals were observed having swift flight nearby forest areas, open glades and roadsides. The Commander spotted basking with their wings pressed flat on rocks along streambeds. Flowering twigs of
Acacia catechu, Mussaendra
frondoda,
Mitragyna parviflora
,
Acacia modesta
,
Cannabis sativa
and
Lantana camara
between the elevation ranges of
320 m
and
500 m
amsl.
Imaging date:
15-IX-2014
.
Old distribution
:
India
:
Arunachal Pradesh
,
Assam
,
Chhattisgarh
,
Gujarat
,
Jharkhand
,
Kerala
,
Madhya Pradesh
,
Meghalaya
, Odhisa,
Sikkim
,
Tamil Nadu
,
Tripura
,
Uttarakhand
and
West Bengal
. Native of South Asia (
Myanmar
,
Bangladesh
and
Sri Lanka
). (
Varshney and Smetacek, 2015
; Kehimkar, 2014, 2016; Paul Van Gasse, 2018; ondhi and
Kunte, 2018
;
Kunte
et al
., 2018
).
New distribution
: J&K (Raika Environment Park,
Jammu).
IUCN threat status:
Not yet worked out, also not included in catalogue of life.