Athyma cama Moore, 1857
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Athyma cama Moore, 1857 View in CoL ( Figure 11 View Figures 7-12 )
Common name: Himalayan orange staff sergeant
Salient features: Upperside brown; a broad white band and orange band is just behind to it in case of male. Female having orange bands on upper side and is brown in colour.
Remarks: Individual was noticed perching on Berberis lycium and Pyrus pashia at an elevation of 915m above sea level.
Imaging date: 17-IX-2018
Old distribution: Uttarakhand to Northeast India, Global distribution restricted to Asia ( Bhutan, Nepal). ( Varshney and Smetacek, 2015; Kehimkar, 2014, 2016; Paul Van Gasse, 2018; Sondhi and Kunte, 2018; Kunte et al., 2018).
New distribution: J&K (Sunderbani, Rajouri).
IUCN threat status: Not yet worked out, but the species included in catalogue of life.
Common name: Baronet ( Figure 7 & 8 View Figures 7-12 )
Salient characters: The specimen with upper side tawny yellow, forewing with transverse black line below apical apex, with oval spot beyond encircling small yellow spot and termen shaded with black; hindwing post discal evenly curved series of spots and forewing base shaded with fuscous black, two spots at base of cell and a transverse line beyond crimson pink, edged marked with black.
Remarks: Individuals were recorded mud puddling nearby Diospyros species, Bauhinia variegata and Lantana camara flowering twigs between the elevation ranges of 320-330 m amsl.
Imaging date: 13-VIII-2016.
Old distribution: India: Andhra Pradesh, Chhatisgarh, Delhi, Gujarat, Karnataka, Kerala, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Rajasthan, Sikkim, Telangana, Tamil Nadu, Uttarakhand and West Bengal. Wide distribution reported from South India and Sri Lanka. ( Varshney & 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.
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