Two more species added to India’s list of butterflies

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  • Lepidopterists have discovered the Striped Hairstreak and Elusive Prince in Arunachal Pradesh
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  • Striped Hairstreak
(1) first recorded by Japanese entomologists in Hainan province of China
(2) located near Myanmar border of India
  • Elusive Prince,
(1) It has a Vietnamese connection
(2) was thought to be the more familiar Black Prince found in the Eastern Himalayas.
(3) only had a male specimen of the Elusive Prince,
(4) we don’t have information about female
  • The Rohana genus
(1) It had been represented in India by two species — the Black Prince (Rohana parisatis) and the Brown Prince (Rohana parvata).
(2) In the Black Prince, the male is black and the female is brown
(3) In the Brown Prince, both male and female are brown
Posted by Jawwad Kazi on 2nd Jul 2020
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