Elymnias hypermnestra Linnaeus, 1763

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

Elymnias hypermnestra Linnaeus, 1763 ( Figure 3 )

Common name: Common Palmfly

Salient characters: Male has black upperside forewings with minute patches, forewing with a broad triangular pale purplish-white pre-apical mark, while, female upper side tawny, veins black, forewing dorsal margin broadly black.

Remarks: Individuals were recorded flying around Murraya koenigii and Crinum sp. flowering twigs at the elevation of 327 m amsl.

Imaging date: 17-X-2016.

Old distribution: India: Assam, Andhra Pradesh, Arunachal Pradesh, Chhatisgarh, Gujarat, Kerala, Maharashtra, Mizoram, Odhisa, Punjab, Sikkim, Tripura, Uttarakhand and West Bengal. Wide distribution recorded from South Asia. ( Varshney and Smetacek, 2015; Kehimkar, 2014, 2016; Paul Van Gasse, 2018; Sondhi and Kunte, 2018; Kunte et al., 2018).

New distribution: J&K (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.