Athyma cama Moore, 1857

Sheikh, Taslima & Parey, Sajad H., 2019, New records of butterflies (Lepidoptera: Insecta) from Jammu and Kashmir Himalaya, Records of the Zoological Survey of India 119 (4), pp. 463-473 : 466-468

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.26515/rzsi/v119/i4/2019/144197

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/712B87B5-E510-4F4A-F3B8-F7379FDAEFB2

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scientific name

Athyma cama Moore, 1857
status

 

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.

Symphaedra nais Forster, 1771

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.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Lepidoptera

Family

Nymphalidae

Genus

Athyma

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