Jamides celeno Cramer, 1775

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 : 470

Jamides celeno Cramer, 1775 (Figure 15)

Common name: Common Cerulean

Salient characters: Underside with white lines on greyish brown background, tornal spot present at the base of tail. Male upper side with ground colour pale bluish white, whereas female with uppe rside with greater area of white to be seen between brown markings.

Remarks: Individuals were observed perching over Bauhinia vahlii flowers between the elevation range of 325-340 m amsl.

Imaging date: 12-VI-2016.

Old distribution: India: Andhra Pradesh, Assam, Goa, Gujarat, Himachal Pradesh, Kerala, Meghalaya, Maharashtra, Tripura, Telangana, Uttarakhand and West Bengal. This species is endemic to 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 (Mahamaya forest, Jammu).

IUCN threat status: Not yet worked out, but the species included in catalogue of life.