Mota massyla (Hewitson, [1869]) (Saffron)

Bhowmik, Suman, 2021, Fifty-one new additions to the butterfly (Lepidoptera: Rhopalocera) fauna of Tripura, North-east India, Revista Chilena de Entomología (Rev. Chil. Entomol.) 47 (1), pp. 35-60 : 50

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.35249/rche.47.1.21.04

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:07DA43A6-7C28-4088-8371-6BB366EDDA4A

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03F1E917-6E45-6907-126C-9916BA6EFCCD

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scientific name

Mota massyla (Hewitson, [1869]) (Saffron)
status

 

30. Mota massyla (Hewitson, [1869]) (Saffron) View in CoL

Remarks. One female individual was recorded while egg laying in its host plant on 10.x.2020, in Jampui Hills (23°48’51” N & 92°15’33” E, ca. 827 m above msl.). This species is very rare throughout the state.

Current known distribution. Bhutan, Myanmar, India (Sikkim to Northeast India) ( Van Gasse 2013; Varshney & Smetacek 2015).

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Lepidoptera

Family

Lycaenidae

Genus

Mota

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