Pareronia hippia Fabricius, 1787

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

Pareronia hippia Fabricius, 1787 ( Figure 2 )

Common name: Indian Wanderer

Salient characters: Male upper side ground colour with clear blue and forewing apex and terminal margin broadly black, while female upper side black with white bluish markings. The marginal markings prominent on upper hind wing in both sex.

Remarks: Individuals were observed flying over Tecoma stans and Bauhinia vahlii at the elevation range of 320-380 m amsl.

Imaging date: 04-VII-2016.

Old distribution: India- throughout India including present record from J&K and not reported from Punjab and Rajasthan. Global distribution restricted to Asia. ( Varshney and Smetacek, 2015; Kehimkar, 2014, 2016; Paul Van Gasse, 2018; Sondhi and Kunte, 2018; Kunte et al., 2018).

New distribution: J&K (SKUAST-J Chatha).

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.