Check List 12(4): e19525, doi: 10.15560/12.4.1923
Vagrans egista sinha (Kollar, 1844) (Lepidoptera: Papilionoidea: Nymphalidae): range extension and an addition to the butterfly fauna of Himachal Pradesh, India
Jagbir Singh Kirti‡,
Deepika Mehra‡,
Avtar Kaur Sidhu§‡ Department of Zoology and Environmental Sciences, Punjabi University, India§ Zoological Survey of India, High Altitude Regional Centre (HARC), India
Corresponding author:
Deepika Mehra
(
deepika.mehra.nymphalidae@gmail.com
)
© 2017 Jagbir Kirti, Deepika Mehra, Avtar Sidhu. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY 4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
Citation:
Mehra D, Kirti J, Sidhu A (2016) Vagrans egista sinha (Kollar, 1844) (Lepidoptera: Papilionoidea: Nymphalidae): range extension and an addition to the butterfly fauna of Himachal Pradesh, India. Check List 12(4): 1923. https://doi.org/10.15560/12.4.1923 |  |
Abstract
This paper reports the first record of Vagrans egista sinha (Kollar, 1844) (Lepidoptera: Papilionoidea: Nymphalidae) from Himachal Pradesh, India, extending its known distribution (Dehradun to Sikkim, Bengal, Orissa, Assam and Burma) by 250 km westward, beyond the Sutlej defile.
Keywords
Northwest Himalaya; Oriental region; Australian region