Udaspes folus Cramer 1775

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 : 470-471

publication ID

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

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/712B87B5-E514-4F47-F3B8-F2869A78EF10

treatment provided by

Felipe

scientific name

Udaspes folus Cramer 1775
status

 

Udaspes folus Cramer 1775 View in CoL (Figure 17 & 18)

Common name: Grass demon

Salient features: Upperside black, the basal half of both the wings covered with minute yellow scales, markings pure white. Fore wing with large white spot. Hind wing with a very large medial white patch with its margin sinous all around; abdominal area covered with yellow hair. Upper side fore wing with markings and hind wing with white medial patch.

Remarks: Individual was found on grass at an elevation of 915m amsl.

Imaging date: 16-V- 2018.

Old distribution: Gujarat to West Bengal and south to Kerela, Himachal Pradesh to Northeast India. Global Distribution Srilanka Myanmar, China, Indochina, Taiwan, Thailand, Singapore, Indonesia. ( Varshney and Smetacek, 2015; Kehimkar, 2014, 2016; Paul Van Gasse, 2018; Sondhi and Kunte, 2018; Kunte et al., 2018).

New distribution: J&K (BGSB University, Rajouri).

IUCN threat status: Not yet worked out, but the species included in catalogue of life.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Lepidoptera

Family

Hesperiidae

Genus

Udaspes

Darwin Core Archive (for parent article) View in SIBiLS Plain XML RDF