Acraea terpsicore Linnaeus, 1758

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 : 465-466

Acraea terpsicore Linnaeus, 1758 ( Figure 4 & 5 )

Common name: Tawny Coster

Salient characters: Upper side brick red or orange with narrow black boarder along outer wing edge on forewing; hind wing with black border and white spots. Male hind wing with a basal series of four or five black spots.

Remarks: Individuals were observed flying in grass and on flowers of Bauhinia vahlii and Passiflora species at the elevation range of 330-370 m amsl. Individuals were not noticed flying very high, but seems keep flying along the ground

Imaging date: 22-X-2015.

Old distribution: India: Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Andhra Pradesh, Chhatisgarh, Delhi, Gujarat, Karnataka, Kerala, Manipur, Meghalaya, Rajasthan, Shimla, Sikkim, Telangana, Tripura, Uttar Pradesh and West Bengal. Wide distribution reported mainly from Southeast Asia. ( Varshney and Smetacek, 2015; Kehimkar, 2014, 2016; Paul Van Gasse, 2018; Sondhi and Kunte, 2018; Kunte et al., 2018).

New distribution: J&K (Manda hills, Jammu).

IUCN threat status: Not yet worked out, also not included in catalogue of life.

Figures

Figures 1-6. 1. Abisara bifasciata Moore, 1877. 2. Pareronia hippia Fabricius, 1787. 3. Elymnias hypermnestra Linnaeus, 1763. 4&5. Acraea terpsicore Linnaeus, 1758. 6. Charaxes solon Fabricius, 1793.