Moduza procris Cramer, 1777
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Moduza procris Cramer, 1777 ( Figure 10 View Figures 7-12 )
Common name: Commander
Salient characters: The upper side of their wings bright reddish brown and centre of wings with white spots, hind wings with crenulated margins and underside whitish grey towards the base and row of dull reddish brown or black spot along the margins.
Remarks: Individuals were observed having swift flight nearby forest areas, open glades and roadsides. The Commander spotted basking with their wings pressed flat on rocks along streambeds. Flowering twigs of Acacia catechu, Mussaendra frondoda, Mitragyna parviflora , Acacia modesta , Cannabis sativa and Lantana camara between the elevation ranges of 320 m and 500 m amsl.
Imaging date: 15-IX-2014.
Old distribution: India: Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Chhattisgarh, Gujarat, Jharkhand, Kerala, Madhya Pradesh, Meghalaya, Odhisa, Sikkim, Tamil Nadu, Tripura, Uttarakhand and West Bengal. Native of South Asia ( Myanmar, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka). ( Varshney and Smetacek, 2015; Kehimkar, 2014, 2016; Paul Van Gasse, 2018; ondhi and Kunte, 2018; Kunte et al., 2018).
New distribution: J&K (Raika Environment Park,
Jammu).
IUCN threat status: Not yet worked out, also not included in catalogue of life.
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