Spindasis ictis (Hewitson, 1865) (Common Shot Silverline)

Sharma, Neeraj & Sharma, Shakha, 2021, On the occurrence of three new Lycaenid butterflies (Lepidoptera) from Jammu and Kashmir, India, Revista Chilena de Entomología (Rev. Chil. Entomol.) 47 (2), pp. 231-235 : 233

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.35249/rche.47.2.21.09

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:EED9FBAD-8DB4-4735-94AA-EEE92842EC25

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/AD49066A-607F-FFF5-FF24-FD0BFC51FB3C

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scientific name

Spindasis ictis (Hewitson, 1865) (Common Shot Silverline)
status

 

Spindasis ictis (Hewitson, 1865) (Common Shot Silverline)

Current known occurrence until this reporting: India (Rajasthan northwards to Himachal Pradesh, eastwards to West Bengal, Odisha, Madhya Pradesh and southwards to Kerala), Pakistan, Sri Lanka ( Varshney & Smetacek 2015; Kehimkar 2016; Singh 2016; van Gasse 2017; Boruah et al. 2018; Singh & Sondhi 2016; Flora et al. 2020; Kumar et al. 2020; Soman 2021).

Remarks. A silverline butterfly was spotted nectaring on flowers of Rubus niveus (Thunberg, 1813) near Galgander (33ᴼ07′49″ N - 75ᴼ33′49″ E, c. 920 m), district Doda on a sunny morning of 3.ix.2020. The individual was photographed in the field and identified as Spindasis ictis

(Hewitson, 1865), Common Shot Silverline ( Fig. 3 View Figures 2-5 ) after consulting Kehimkar (2008, 2016),

Varshney & Smetacek (2015), Sondhi & Kunte (2018) and online web resources (https:// www.ifoundbutterflies.org//sp/877/Spindasis-ictis). The known western distribution of this species is from district Kangra of Himachal Pradesh ( Soman 2021) and this reporting is thus the first from the Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Lepidoptera

Family

Lycaenidae

Genus

Spindasis

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