Udaspes folus Cramer 1775
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https://doi.org/ 10.26515/rzsi/v119/i4/2019/144197 |
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https://treatment.plazi.org/id/712B87B5-E514-4F47-F3B8-F2869A78EF10 |
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Felipe |
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Udaspes folus Cramer 1775 |
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Udaspes folus Cramer 1775 View in CoL (Figure 17 & 18)
Common name: Grass demon
Salient features: Upperside black, the basal half of both the wings covered with minute yellow scales, markings pure white. Fore wing with large white spot. Hind wing with a very large medial white patch with its margin sinous all around; abdominal area covered with yellow hair. Upper side fore wing with markings and hind wing with white medial patch.
Remarks: Individual was found on grass at an elevation of 915m amsl.
Imaging date: 16-V- 2018.
Old distribution: Gujarat to West Bengal and south to Kerela, Himachal Pradesh to Northeast India. Global Distribution Srilanka Myanmar, China, Indochina, Taiwan, Thailand, Singapore, Indonesia. ( Varshney and Smetacek, 2015; Kehimkar, 2014, 2016; Paul Van Gasse, 2018; Sondhi and Kunte, 2018; Kunte et al., 2018).
New distribution: J&K (BGSB University, Rajouri).
IUCN threat status: Not yet worked out, but the species included in catalogue of life.
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