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A few Butterflies of Chakrata and surrounding area

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June 2005

With a wide variety of Habitats - from thick Deodar forests, Alpine meadows, flowing streams to cultivate fields Chakrata and surrounding areas play host to a wide variety of Insect-life.

 

(Click on the plates to enlarge them)

 

I have numbered all the Butterflies and put alphabets in case there is more than one photo for the same one (for eg. 03A and 03B). I have listed below the common and scientific names of these fellows following this same numbering order, also indicated the book from which the reference was made. (Please correct me if you think any of them are wrong.)

Most noticeable among the insects are the butterflies. Below are a few of these beauties.
Plate no.2
Insects of Chakrata
Plate no.4
Plate no.3

Butterflies of Chakrata - 1 Butterflies of Chakrata - 2

Butterflies of Chakrata - 3 Butterflies of Chakrata - 4

Plate no.1

 

Detailed butterfly list as numbered on the Plates:

1.Plum Judy (Female)
Abisara echerius (Stoll) (KK) (MH)

2.Large Oakblue
Arthopala amantes (Hewitson) (KK) (MH)

3.Club Beak
Libythia myrrha (Godart) (KK) (MH)

4.Common Lascar
Pantoporia hordonia (Stoll) (KK)

5.Forget-me-not
Catochrysops strabo (Fabricius) (KK)

6.Common Argus
Erebia nirmala (Moore) (WB)

7.Plain Hedge Blue
Celastrina lavendularis (Moore) (IK)


8.Unided

9.Common Punch
Dodona durga (Kollar) (WB)

10.Straight Banded Treebrown
Lethe verma (Kollar) (IK)

11.Water Hairstreak
Euaspa milionia (TJR)

12.Common Copper
Lycaena phlaeas (Ford) (MH) (TJR)

13.Sorrel Sapphire
Heliophorus Sena (Kollar) (TJR)

14.Common Spotted Flat (Male)
Calaenorrrhinus leucocera (TJR)

15.Great Blackvein
Aporia agathon (Gray) (IK)


16.Silver Hairstreak
Chrysozephyrus syla assamica (Tytler) (MH)

17. Great Satyr
Aulocera padma (Kollar) (IK)


18.Indian Tortoiseshell
Aglais cashmiriensis (Kollar) (IK)

19.Chapman's Cupid
Everes argiades diporides (Chapman) (IK)


20.Pea Blue
Lampides boeticus (Linnaeus) (KK)

21. Painted Lady
Vanessa cardui (Linnaeus) (WB)


22.Common Silver Stripe
Fabriciana kamala (Moore) (IK)

23.Common Silver Stripe
Fabriciana kamala (Moore) (IK)

 

 

References:

•(IK) [email protected]
Isaac Kehimkar

•(KK) Butterflies of Peninsular India. 2000
Krushnamegh Kunte
Universities Press (ISBN 8173713545)

• (WB) Butterflies of the Indian Region. 1957
Wynter-Blyth
Bombay Natural History Society

• (MH) The Butterflies of Sikkim Himalaya and their natural history. 1992
Meena Haribal
Sikkim Nature Conservation Foundation, Gangtok

• (TJR) The Butterflies of Pakistan.
T J Roberts
Oxford (ISBN 0195779959)

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