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Butterflies of Western Ghats Second Edition 2018 -3 (Final)
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Butterflies of Western Ghats (Final draft)
The e-Book can be downloaded free of cost and used on any smart phone or computer. It is made as a simple PDF so that any species can be searched using the search option.
This e-Book provides information about 322 species of butterflies, out of 336 species, occurring in the Western Ghats part of India. Photographic illustrations showing the upperside, underside, male and female, wherever dimorphic, are given for most of the species. Information about the subspecies found in the Western Ghats or South India is added. Along with common names and complete scientific names, wing span, updated list of larval host plants and updated distribution of each species is given.
This e-Book has chapters on Life cycle and Morphology of a Butterfly, Western Ghats – Butterflies, Importance of Butterflies in Nature, ‘Western Ghats – Hotspot of Biodiversity’ highlighting the importance of butterflies and the Western Ghats and ‘Basics of butterfly gardening’.
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A pocket guide to the Butterflies of Sri Lanka covers all the butterfly species known to date from Sri Lanka aiming of providing field identification features of adult butterflies. Almost all the species are provided with color photographs (very few with colored drawings) depicting their sexual dimorphism, seasonal forms etc. while providing distribution maps and key identification characters & behaviors. Further it contained the names of selected larval food plants for each butterfly species.
We present a systematic, updated checklist of larval host plants of the butterflies of the Western Ghats, a globally recognized biodiversity hotspot. This includes recent new records, with a total of approximately 834 plant species/groups belonging to 88 families that are used by 320 butterfly species of the Western Ghats (the host plant records for 16 species are unknown). A reverse list is also provided as a reference to plant species-wise plant-butterfly associations. This work highlights the diversity of plant species on which the endemic and other butterfly species of the Western Ghats depend.
We present a systematic, updated checklist of larval host plants of the butterflies of the Western Ghats, a globally recognized biodiversity hotspot. This includes recent new records, with a total of approximately 834 plant species/groups belonging to 88 families that are used by 320 butterfly species of the Western Ghats (the host plant records for 16 species are unknown). A reverse list is also provided as a reference to plant species-wise plant-butterfly associations.This work highlights the diversity of plant species on which the endemic and other butterfly species of the Western Ghats depend.
This book cover 634 species of butterflies found in the Indian region. More than 1000 coloured images to introduce butterfly life-cycle, adaptation, biogeography and species identification.
Field Guide to help in the indentification of butterflies found in the Indian Subcontinent. The book covers more than 1000 species and subspecies. This is a fully illustrated colour guide of living butterflies. This book deals not only with the biology and identification of butterflies, but also has on butterfly watching, photography and butterfly gardening.
Common Evening Brown Melanitis leda (Linnaeus, 1758) Images clockwise from top left: UN WSF and UN DSF by Raju Kasambe; UP by Tarun Karmakar Wing Span
- Lakshadweep
Lakshadweep.
Common Evening Brown Melanitis leda (Linnaeus, 1758)
Images clockwise from top left: UN WSF
and UN DSF by Raju Kasambe; UP by
Tarun Karmakar
Wing Span: 60-80 mm.
Distribution: A. p. perius (Linnaeus, 1758): Western Ghats: Maharashtra southwards to Kerala
- G Lanceolarium
- G Heyneanum
- G Wrightii
Larval Host Plants:
Glochidion eriocarpum, G. lanceolarium, G. heyneanum, G. wrightii,
Phyllanthus spp. (Phyllanthaceae).
Distribution:
A. p. perius (Linnaeus, 1758): Western Ghats: Maharashtra southwards to
Kerala, Madhya Pradesh and Jharkhand;
Subspecies: E. a. meridionalis Fruhstorfer, 1913: Western Ghats: Maharashtra to Kerala and Andhra Pradesh
- Himachal Pradesh To Uttarakhand
- Uttar Pradesh
Himachal Pradesh to
Uttarakhand and Uttar Pradesh.
Subspecies:
E. a. meridionalis Fruhstorfer, 1913: Western Ghats: Maharashtra to Kerala and
Andhra Pradesh.
Distribution: J. a. atlites (Linnaeus, 1763): Throughout India except arid regions; Andamans and Nicobars. Peacock Pansy Junonia almana (Linnaeus, 1758) Images: Clockwise from left: UP
- Wsf Un
- Dsf Un By Raju Kasambe Wing Span
Larval Host Plants:
Barleria spp., Hygrophila auriculata, Hygrophila costata (Acanthaceae).
Distribution:
J. a. atlites (Linnaeus, 1763): Throughout India except arid regions; Andamans
and Nicobars.
Peacock Pansy Junonia almana (Linnaeus, 1758)
Images: Clockwise from left: UP, WSF UN and DSF UN by Raju Kasambe
Wing Span: 60-65 mm.
Rajasthan to Kerala and eastwards to Jharkhand. Blue Pansy Junonia orithya (Linnaeus, 1758) Images: Clockwise from left: Male UP by
Distribution: Subspecies:
J. l. vaisya (Fruhstorfer, 1912): Rajasthan to Kerala and eastwards to Jharkhand.
Blue Pansy Junonia orithya (Linnaeus, 1758)
Images: Clockwise from left: Male UP by J.M. Garg, Female UP and UN by Raju Kasambe
Wing Span: 45-60 mm.