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ISSN 0972- 1800 VOLUME 21, NO. 4 QUARTERLY OCTOBER-DECEMBER, 2019 Date of Publication: 28th December, 2019 BIONOTES A Quarterly Newsletter for Research Notes and News On Any Aspect Related with Life Forms BIONOTES articles are abstracted/indexed/available in the Indian Science Abstracts, INSDOC; Zoological Record; Thomson Reuters (U.S.A); CAB International (U.K.); The Natural History Museum Library & Archives, London: Library Naturkundemuseum, Erfurt (Germany) etc. and online databases. Founder Editor Published by Dr. R.K. Varshney, A Biologists Dr. R.K. Varshney, Confrerie, Raj Bhawan, Manik Chowk, Ex- Additional Director, Aligarh (up to volume 20 (2018)) R.N.I. Zoological Survey of India, Kolkata Registration No. 71669/99. Manuscripts: Publication Policy: Please E-mail to [email protected]. Information, statements or findings published Guidelines for Authors: BIONOTES are the views of its author/ source only. publishes short notes on any aspect of Page Charges: biology. 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Abroad: US $ 20/- (by sea mail). Back volumes are available @ Rs. 800/- in Research Centre, Bhimtal, Uttarakhand 263 India. 136, India. Phone: ++91 8938896403 Email: [email protected] From Volume 21 Published by the Entomological Society of India (ESI), New Delhi (Nodal Officer: V.V. Ramamurthy, ESI, New Delhi) And Butterfly Research Centre, Bhimtal Executive Editor: Peter Smetacek Assistant Editor: Shristee Panthee Butterfly Research Trust, Bhimtal Cover Photo by Peter Smetacek of a Salassa mizorama Moth Vol.21 (4), December, 2019 BIONOTES TABLE OF CONTENTS EXTENSION OF THE KNOWN DISTRIBUTION OF THE COMMON GEM BUTTERFLY PORITIA HEWITSONI (LEPIDOPTERA: LYCAENIDAE) TO BASTAR, CHHATTISGARH by Anupam Sisodia & Ravi Naidu 105 FIRST RECORD OF LAUGHING DOVE (SPILOPELIA SENEGALENSIS LINNAEUS, 1766) (COLUMBIFORMES) IN SIKKIM, EASTERN HIMALAYA by Prem K. Chhetri, Thinlay Namgyal Lepcha, Bijoy Chhetri & Kusal Gurung 106 CONFIRMATION OF PALE GREEN AWLET BURARA GOMATA (LEPIDOPTERA: HESPERIIDAE) FROM EASTERN NEPAL by Sanjaya Raj Tamang, John Lhomi Nuppa, Pratik Pandeya, Shristee Panthee & Bandana Subedi 109 ADDITIONS TO THE AVIFAUNA OF ATHGARH FOREST DIVISION, CUTTACK, ODISHA, EASTERN INDIA by Arajush Payra, Suraj Kumar Dash, Himanshu Shekhar Palei & Arun Kumar Mishra 112 BUTTERFLIES (LEPIDOPTERA: PAPILIONOIDEA) OF CHHATTISGARH, INDIA by Anupam Sisodia 116 FIRST REPORT OF PHACOPTERON LENTIGINOSUM BUCKTON, 1896 (INSECTA: PSYLLOIDEA: PHACOPTERONIDAE) FROM ODISHA, INDIA by Ashirwad Tripathy 142 RECORD OF MYCALESIS ADAMSONI (WATSON, 1897) (LEPIDOPTERA: NYMPHALIDAE) FROM POKHARA AND GODAVARI, NEPAL Shristee Panthee, Mahendra Singh Limbu, Bandana Subedi, Sanjaya Raj Tamang & Amrit Poudel 145 BUTTERFLIES FEEDING ON HUMAN BLOOD: FIRST OBSERVATION FROM INDIAN REGION by Arajush Payra, Gaurab Nandi Das, Monsoon Jyoti Gogoi & Bitupan Boruah 146 FIRST REPORT OF THE GENUS CALLEREBIA BUTLER, 1867 (LEPIDOPTERA: NYMPHALIDAE: SATYRINAE) FROM MIZORAM, INDIA by Lallawmsanga & Lalsiampuii Tocchawng 150 NOTES ON TAXA OF THE SALASSA LEMAII GROUP (LEPIDOPTERA: SATURNIIDAE) WITH THE DESCRIPTION OF A NEW SPECIES FROM MIZORAM, INDIA by Stefan Naumann & Esther Lalhmingliani 152 SATURNIA ROSALATA NAUMANN & NASSIG (LEPIDOPTERA: SATURNIIDAE) IN UTTARAKHAND: AN ADDITION TO THE INDIAN FAUNA by Shristee Panthee & Peter Smetacek 159 TWO NEW SPECIES OF LOEPA MOORE (LEPIDOPTERA: SATURNIIDAE) FROM THE INDIAN SUBCONTINENT by Stefan Naumann & Peter Smetacek 161 BRAHMEA HEARSEYI WHITE, 1862 (LEPIDOPTERA: BRAHMAEIDAE) IN ODISHA, INDIA Sandeep Mishra & Peter Smetacek 171 104 Vol. 21 (4), December, 2019 BIONOTES BUTTERFLIES FEEDING ON HUMAN BLOOD: FIRST OBSERVATION FROM INDIAN REGION ARAJUSH PAYRA1,*, GAURAB NANDI DAS2, MONSOON JYOTI GOGOI3 & BITUPAN BORUAH4 1Ramnagar, Purba Medinipur, West Bengal, India, Pin-721441 [email protected] 2Bokakhat Town, Golaghat, Assam, India, Pin- 785612 3Scientist-B, Bombay Natural History Society, Hornbill House, Mumbai 400001, Maharashtra, India 4Wildlife Institute of India, Dehradun, Uttarakhand, India-248001 Reviewer: Peter Smetacek Key Words: Assam, North-east India, feeding behaviour, Lycaenidae, Hesperiidae, attractants, odour. Abstract: The first case of Indian butterflies Germany during July 2007, where two feeding on human blood is reported from Nymphalidae butterflies Erebia ligea Assam. (Linnaeus, 1758) and Erebia pronoe (Esper, Introduction 1780) were observed to feed on fresh blood Adult butterflies obtain nutrition and mineral from a woollen sock (Blood feeding butterflies supplements from nectar and pollen of 5362.JPG., 2018). From the Indian sub- flowers, overripe fruits, tree sap, human region, no butterflies have been reported to perspiration, excreta (faeces, scat, dung, feed upon blood. Especially, members of droppings and urine), decaying flesh of dead Lycaenidae and Hesperiidae have never been animals, and puddle on mud (Wynter-Blyth, observed to feed upon blood. Here we report 1957; Boggs & Jackson, 1991; Plotkin & for the first time blood feeding by two Goddard, 2013; Kehimkar, 2016; Bodri, Lycaenidae butterflies Neopithecops zalmora 2018). A Nymphalid butterfly, Dryas iulia (Butler, [1870]) and Jamides alecto (C. (Fabricius, 1775) has also been reported to Felder, 1860); and one Hesperiidae butterfly feed upon tears (lacryphagy) of caimans (de la Odontoptilum angulata (C. & R. Felder, 1862) Rosa, 2014). In the tropical region many from North-eastern region of India. nocturnal moths (largely males) belonging to The Panbari Reserve Forest (26°36'N & Pyralidae, Erebidae, Geometridae, 93°30'E) is protected under the Kaziranga Thyatiridae, Notodontidae, and Sphingidae, National Park and the Reserve forest comes were reported to feed on wounds and under the Golaghat and Karbi Anglong lachrymal fluid from the eyes of large districts of Assam. The average elevation of mammals, including humans (Krenn, 2010). this Reserve forest is ranges from 80- 360m. In Lepidoptera, only adult male Calyptra The undisturbed semi-evergreen forest and moths (ten out of seventeen described species) forest streams of this reserve provide suitable are well-known for blood-feeding or habitat for butterflies. This reserve forest is hematophagy. These moths pierce the skin, home to 116 of Lycaenidae (Gogoi, 2015) and with the help of proboscis and then suck the 137 species of Hesperiidae (Gogoi, 2013). blood from the host mainly from large Observation mammals, including humans (Snyder, 2016). During a butterfly survey in Panbari Reserve Previously, butterflies feeding on human Forest on 7.x.2014 at about 12:30 pm we blood was only reported from Bavaria, observed two individuals of Lycaenidae 146 Vol. 21 (4), December, 2019 BIONOTES butterfly N. zalmora and J. alecto were come wounds or simply the blood to feed upon is to feed on fresh blood, which had flowed onto still unknown to us. Studies show that the the first author’s shoe (Fig 1 & 2). Due to leech blood odour component trans-4,5-epoxy-(E)- bites on legs, the shoes were soaked in blood 2-decenal (TED) produces behavioural and for this reason, the shoes were taken off responses in large predators, which acts as an and places by a forest trail while we rested. attractant (Pettersson et al. 2018). It is not Butterflies that were attracted to the blooded known whether the odour of blood serves as shoes were observed to feed on the blood for an attractant for butterflies. The butterflies about five minutes, and then we moved on observed feeding on blood in the present note along the forest trails in search of butterflies. were previously known only to feed on nectar After that, at about 1:00 pm we observed and damp soil patches, not on decaying flesh another Hesperiidae butterfly O. angulata or other animal sources of minerals (Wynter- come to feed on the blood of the second Blyth, 1957). If they were attracted to fresh author's leg. At first, it had been fluttering blood, then they can obviously digest it, too. around the second author’s body, then it Therefore, feeding on blood by these finally settled on the bleeding wound on his butterflies may prove as a significant leg) (Fig 3). observation to carry out further investigation Discussion on the natural history of such butterflies, as In Lepidoptera, blood feeding by the Calyptra well as feeding preferences among the moths was hypothesised as a salt acquisition Papilionoidea. strategy, to increase their mating success References (Zaspel et al. 2011). Here, in case of our Blood feeding butterflies 5362.JPG. 2018. present observation we can assume that, to Wikimedia Commons, the
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    Proceedings of the Nature Reserves Survey Seminar. 70re 49(2) (1997) Gardens' Bulletin Singapore 49 (1997) 273-296. ~ laysia and Butterfly Biodiversity in Singapore with Particular :ingapore. Reference to the Central Catchment Nature Reserve discovery, 1 2 ~y Bulletin. S.K. KHEW AND STEVEN S.H. NE0 1103, Tai Keng Gardens, Singapore 535384 re. In: L.M. 2Blk 16, Simei Street 1, #05-13, Melville Park, Singapore 529942 )f Zoology, Abstract Chin, R.T. A total of 381 butterfly species have now been recorded in Singapore of which 18 are new City: Bukit records since 1990. Of this total, 236 species (62%) were recorded during the present JOre. Suppl. survey. A U except 8 (3%) of these occur within the Nature Reserves and 148 (63%) were recorded only within the Nature Reserves. A total of 74 species (31%) within the Reserves were considered very rare. e Nee Soon ion: Marine Introduction l impact of The study of butterflies by amateurs is not new, and indeed, it is through onservation. the observations of these dedicated individuals that much important data have been accumulated over the years. The information on butterfly biodiversity in Singapore is, at most, sketchy. Most of the documentation ater prawn, of the species occurred done during the post-war years until the late 1960s. nidae) from From our literature research, two references stand out: W.A. Fleming's )gy. 43: 299- Butterflies of West Malaysia and Singapore (1991) and Steven Corbet and Maurice Pendlebury's Butterfli es of the Malay Peninsula (1992). Although the latest editions of the two reference books were published in the early ~amalph eops 1990s, most of the updates referred only to the Peninsular Malaysia.
  • Butterfly Extirpations

    Butterfly Extirpations

    RAFFLES BULLETIN OF ZOOLOGY 2018 Conservation & Ecology RAFFLES BULLETIN OF ZOOLOGY 66: 217–257 Date of publication: 19 April 2018 http://zoobank.org/urn:lsid:zoobank.org:pub:CFF83D96-5239-4C56-B7CE-8CA1E086EBFD Butterfy extirpations, discoveries and rediscoveries in Singapore over 28 years Anuj Jain1,2*#, Khew Sin Khoon3, Cheong Weei Gan2, and Edward L. Webb1* Abstract. Habitat loss and urbanisation in the tropics have been recognised as major drivers of species extinctions. Concurrently, novel habitats such as urban parks have been shown to be important as habitats and stepping stones in urban ecosystems around the world. However, few studies have assessed long-term patterns of species extinctions and discoveries in response to these drivers in the tropics. We know little about long-term persistence and utility of novel habitats in tropical urban ecosystems. In this study, we produced an updated and exhaustive butterfy checklist of species recorded from Singapore till December 2017 to investigate trends in butterfy extirpations (local extinctions), discoveries (new country records) and rediscoveries and how these relate to land use change in 28 years (1990–2017) in Singapore. Up to 144 butterfy species were identifed to be extirpated in Singapore by 1990. From 1990–2017, an additional nine butterfy extirpations have potentially occurred, which suggests a maximum of 153 butterfy extirpations to date. The rate of extirpations between 1990 to 2017 (< 0.33 extirpations per year) was much lower than the rate of extirpations between 1926 to 1989 (> 1.52 extirpations per year). The majority of potentially extirpated butterfies between 1990 to 2017 were species restricted to mature forests.
  • Species Around Haringhata Dairy Farm, Nadia District, West Bengal Including Range Extension of Prosotas Bhutea (De Niceville, [1884]) for Southern West Bengal, India

    Species Around Haringhata Dairy Farm, Nadia District, West Bengal Including Range Extension of Prosotas Bhutea (De Niceville, [1884]) for Southern West Bengal, India

    Cuadernos de Biodiversidad 61 (2021): 1-16 I.S.S.N.: 2254-612X doi:10.14198/cdbio.2021.61.01 Preliminary checklist of butterfly (Insecta, Lepidoptera, Papilionoidea) species around Haringhata dairy farm, Nadia district, West Bengal including range extension of Prosotas bhutea (de Niceville, [1884]) for southern West Bengal, India. Catálogo preliminar de las especies de mariposas (Insecta, Lepidoptera, Papilionoidea) de los alrededores de la granja lechera de Haringhata, distrito de Nadia, Bengala Occidental, incluida la ampliación del área de distribución conocida de Prosotas bhutea (de Niceville, [1884]) para el sur de Bengala Occidental, India. Rajib Dey1 1 All India Council of Technical Education ABSTRACT India [email protected] The aim of this paper is to investigate and produce an updated and exhaus- Rajib Dey tive checklist of butterfly species recorded around Haringhata Dairy Farm till December 2020. This list is intended to serve as a basis to prepare conservation strategies and generate awareness among the local people. The checklist com- Recibido: 05/01/2021 Aceptado: 15/02/2021 prises a total of 106 butterfly species belonging to 06 families, 19 subfamilies, Publicado: 08/03/2021 and 74 genera. It includes the range extension of Prosotas bhutea into the lower Gangetic plains of South Bengal. © 2021 Rajib Dey Licencia: Key words: Insect; Biodiversity; Checklist; Barajaguli; Prosotas bhutea. Este trabajo se publica bajo una Licencia Creative Commons Reconocimiento 4.0 Internacional. RESUMEN El objetivo de este documento es investigar y producir una lista de verificación actualizada y exhaustiva de las especies de mariposas registradas alrededor de la Cómo citar: granja lechera Haringhata hasta diciembre de 2020.