Everes lacturnus Godart, 1824

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

Everes lacturnus Godart, 1824 (Figure 16)

Common name: Indian cupid

Salient features: Underside is pale silvery-grey, with a bright reddish orange blotch at the hindwing tornus, and seriesof dark grey marginal and submarginal dashes.

Remarks: Individuals were found nectaring on Trifolium species and perching over grass at an elevation of 915m amsl.

Imaging date: 20-IV-2019.

Old distribution: In India: Himachal Pradesh to Northeast India, Uttar Pradesh and Bihar. Global distribution reported from Srilanka to Malaysia, Southern China, South Korea, Japan, Thailand, Austrailia. ( 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.