Elymnias hypermnestra Linnaeus, 1763
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https://doi.org/ 10.26515/rzsi/v119/i4/2019/144197 |
persistent identifier |
https://treatment.plazi.org/id/712B87B5-E511-4F4D-F356-F5329A78E880 |
treatment provided by |
Felipe |
scientific name |
Elymnias hypermnestra Linnaeus, 1763 |
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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.
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