Tajuria jehana Moore, 1884, 1883

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 : 468

Tajuria jehana Moore, 1884 ( Figure 12 )

Common name: Plains Blue Royal.

Salient characters: Upperside white with black lines in series on upper hindwings, two tornal spots at the base of tail and blue area on fore-wing above.

Remarks: Individuals were observed perching over Murraya koenigii and Todalia trees between the elevation ranges of 320-350 m amsl.

Imaging date: 9-XI- 2015.

Old distribution: India: Assam, Bihar, Chhatisgarh, Garhwal, Gujarat, Jharkhand, Karnataka, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Meghalaya, Shimla, Tamil Nadu, Telangana, Uttarakhand, Uttar Pradesh and West Bengal. Global distribution restricted to Asia ( Sri Lanka, China and Nepal). ( 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 7-12. Symphaedra nais Forster, 1771 9. Neptis jumbah Moore, 1858. 10. Moduza procris Cramer, 1777. 11. Athyma cama Moore, 1857. 12. Tajuria jehana Moore, 1884.