Abisara bifasciata Moore, 1877

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

Abisara bifasciata Moore, 1877 ( Figure 1 )

Common name: Double Banded Judy

Salient characters: Upper side rich maroon-brown with blue gloss, underside dull maroon brown, forewing with transverse pale bands, hindwing with curved discal pal fascia. In male, upperside with rich purple-brown or maroon-brown with a blue gloss, whereas, in female, upperside hazel brown and terminal halves of wings pale.

Remarks: Individuals were noticed usually at the top of trees and amidst foliages nearby or on flowering twigs of Justicia adhatoda and Lantana camara at the elevation of 327 m amsl.

Imaging date: 15-X-2014.

Old distribution: India- Assam, Kerala, Maharashtra, Manipur, Mizoram and Tamil Nadu. This species is native 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 (inside Raika environment

Park, Jammu).

IUCN threat status: Not yet worked out, but the species 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.