Elymnias hypermnestra Linnaeus, 1763

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 : 465

publication ID

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

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/712B87B5-E511-4F4D-F356-F5329A78E880

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scientific name

Elymnias hypermnestra Linnaeus, 1763
status

 

Elymnias hypermnestra Linnaeus, 1763 View in CoL ( Figure 3 View Figures 1-6. 1 )

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.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Lepidoptera

Family

Nymphalidae

Genus

Elymnias

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