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New Lycaenid Butterfly Records from Jammu & Kashmir, India OPEN ACCESS The Journal of Threatened Taxa is dedicated to building evidence for conservaton globally by publishing peer-reviewed artcles online every month at a reasonably rapid rate at www.threatenedtaxa.org. All artcles published in JoTT are registered under Creatve Commons Atributon 4.0 Internatonal License unless otherwise mentoned. JoTT allows unrestricted use of artcles in any medium, reproducton, and distributon by providing adequate credit to the authors and the source of publicaton. Journal of Threatened Taxa Building evidence for conservaton globally www.threatenedtaxa.org ISSN 0974-7907 (Online) | ISSN 0974-7893 (Print) Note New Lycaenid butterfly records from Jammu & Kashmir, India Shakha Sharma & Neeraj Sharma 26 June 2018 | Vol. 10 | No. 7 | Pages: 11984–11987 10.11609/jot.4046.10.7.11984–11987 For Focus, Scope, Aims, Policies and Guidelines visit htp://threatenedtaxa.org/index.php/JoTT/about/editorialPolicies#custom-0 For Artcle Submission Guidelines visit htp://threatenedtaxa.org/index.php/JoTT/about/submissions#onlineSubmissions For Policies against Scientfc Misconduct visit htp://threatenedtaxa.org/index.php/JoTT/about/editorialPolicies#custom-2 For reprints contact <[email protected]> Publisher & Host Partners Member Threatened Taxa Journal of Threatened Taxa | www.threatenedtaxa.org | 26 June 2018 | 10(7): 11984–11987 Note The Jammu region of the New Lycaenid butterfly records from Himalayan state of Jammu & Kashmir Jammu & Kashmir, India has been the least explored for 1 2 ISSN 0974-7907 (Online) buterfies and there is a substantal Shakha Sharma & Neeraj Sharma ISSN 0974-7893 (Print) lack of informaton on their habitat 1 Department of Zoology, Government Gandhi Memorial Science range and distributon except for few College, Jammu, Jammu & Kashmir 180006, India OPEN ACCESS scatered reports (Sharma & Sharma 2 Insttute of Mountain Environment, University of Jammu, 2017). The Jammu region ofers a Bhaderwah, Jammu & Kashmir 182222, India 1 [email protected], 2 [email protected] wide range of habitats contained in (corresponding author) diferent geographical and climatc regimes ranging from the southern alluvial plains of Ravi and Chenab to the moderately elevated Shivaliks, Pir-Panjal consultng available literature, viz., keys (Evans 1927, and Great Himalaya further northwards bordering Kashmir 1932), catalogue (Varshney & Smetacek 2015), feld guides in the north and Ladakh in the north-east. The recent and books (Varshney 1983, 1993; Kunte 2006; Pajni et al. reports on new records and range extension suggests that 2006; Singh 2010; Kehimkar 2014, 2016; Smetacek 2016; the region is least explored and underrepresented in terms Sondhi & Kunte 2018), annotated checklist (van Gasse of buterfy fauna in comparison to the neighbouring 2013), besides the online resources (Anonymous 2018 states of Utarakhand, Himachal Pradesh and Punjab. a,b,c,d; Chandrasekharan 2018). The distributon range of The buterfy surveys were conducted across diferent buterfies was ascertained from the synoptc catalogue of regions of Jammu province from the southern alluvial buterfies of India (Varshney & Smetacek 2015). plains of Chenab and Ravi to the Himalaya through the Shivaliks and Pir-Panjal mountains during June 2016 to Subfamily Lycaeninae February 2018. The areas covered included Kalidhar and Eastern Blue Sapphire Heliophorus oda (Hewitson, 1865) Dalhori forests in district Rajouri (west), Mansar-Surinsar- Known distributon untl this study: India (Himachal Manwal range, districts Jammu, Samba and Udhampur Pradesh to Sikkim), Nepal, Bhutan (van Gasse 2013; (south), Mansar-Manwal, Billawar-Basoholi-Bani, district Kehimkar 2014, 2016; Varshney & Smetacek 2015; Kathua (east), Bhaderwah, district Doda (north), and Smetacek 2016; Sondhi & Kunte 2018; Anonymous 2018a). Paddar in district Kishtwar (northeast) within an elevaton Remarks: A female individual (Image 1) was spoted range of 320–3,200 m (Fig. 1). During the exploratons, sitng on a rock during an overcast afernoon on 13 June we observed seven lycaenid buterfy species previously 2016 at Marwah (2,800m), Kishtwar. The species has not not recorded from the state of Jammu & Kashmir. All been recorded anywhere from the region aferwards. the species were photographed in the feld and geo- Eastern Blue Sapphire shows an established distributon coordinates recorded. The species were identfed by across the Himalaya, partcularly the neighbouring DOI: htp://doi.org/10.11609/jot.4046.10.7.11984-11987 | ZooBank: urn:lsid:zoobank.org:pub:3B4BF797-968A-43A5-83D2-3EC6607B43A8 Editor: James Young, Hong Kong Lepidoptera Society, Tuen Mun, Hong Kong. Date of publicaton: 26 June 2018 (online & print) Manuscript details: Ms # 4046 | Received 01 February 2018 | Final received 04 May 2018 | Finally accepted 01 June 2018 Citaton: Sharma, S. & N. Sharma (2018). New Lycaenid buterfy records from Jammu & Kashmir, India. Journal of Threatened Taxa 10(7): 11984–11987; htp:// doi.org/10.11609/jot.4046.10.7.11984-11987 Copyright: © Sharma & Sharma 2018. Creatve Commons Atributon 4.0 Internatonal License. JoTT allows unrestricted use of this artcle in any medium, reproduc- ton and distributon by providing adequate credit to the authors and the source of publicaton. Funding: Insttute of Mountain Environment, University of Jammu. Competng interests: The authors declare no competng interests. Acknowledgements: The authors gratefully acknowledge the Faculty of Life Sciences, Insttute of Mountain Environment, University of Jammu for the feld surveys and laboratory access. The authors are also thankful to the Department of ForestsLOGOs and Wildlife Protecton, Government of Jammu & Kashmir for the help and support during the feld surveys. 11984 New Lycaenid buterfy records from Jammu & Kashmir, India Sharma & Sharma. Figure 1. Study area showing locatons of new buterfy records Himachal Pradesh and Utarakhand states and thus could Remarks: One individual was spoted sitng on Pteris be a possible range extension of the species. biaurita L. in a patch of pure Pinus wallichiana A.B. Jacks. near Bhaderwah on 24 June 2016 at an elevaton of 1,750m. Subfamily Curetnae Another individual (Image 3) was spoted basking over a Bright Sunbeam Curets bulis bulis (Westwood, 1852) leaf of Rumex nepalensis Sprengel on a sunny afernoon on Known distributon untl this study: India (Himachal 09 July 2017 near village Massu (2,750m) Paddar, Kishtwar Pradesh, Utarakhand, Sikkim, Arunachal Pradesh, Odisha, District. Not common, it is the frst confrmed report of its Chatsgarh, Andhra Pradesh), Nepal, Bhutan, Bangladesh, distributon in Jammu & Kashmir State. Myanmar (van Gasse 2013; Kehimkar 2014, 2016; Varshney & Smetacek 2015; Smetacek 2016; Sondhi & Kunte 2018; Common Onyx Horaga onyx onyx (Moore, 1857) Anonymous 2018b). Known distributon untl this study: India (Western Remarks: An individual was spoted fying swifly Ghats of Maharashtra southwards, Himachal Pradesh, in open scrub interspersed with Chir Pine trees near Utarakhand, Utar Pradesh, Bihar, Sikkim, Arunachal Chwkichoura (950m), district Jammu on 20 October 2017 Pradesh), Nepal, Bhutan, Bangladesh, Myanmar, Sri (Image 2). The individual kept fying around the Chir Pines Lanka (Kehimkar 2014, 2016; Varshney & Smetacek 2015; intermitently and sitng on the leaves of Carissa opaca L. Smetacek 2016; Chandrasekharan 2018; Sondhi & Kunte shrub. It was photographed in the feld and identfed as 2018). bright sunbeam buterfy. During our visit on 22 October Remarks: One individual was spoted near a spring 2017, we again encountered an individual, this tme a few beside a small market at Bhambla (680m), Rajouri District. kilometers away near Kalidhar (820m) sitng with closed The individual kept fying over the Ipomea pes-tgridis L., wings over a sedimentary rock, for salts probably. The a climber before setling down for nectar feeding over species has so far been reported from the adjoining state the fower heads of Tridax procumbens L. (Image 4). The of Himachal Pradesh and thus could be a possible range authors again recorded this species from G.G.M. Science extension and a new record for Jammu & Kashmir State. College (320m) and Environmental Park (340m), Jammu as well. The species has its recorded distributon tll Subfamily Theclinae Himachal Pradesh and thus could be a range extension Kinnaur Walnut Blue Chaetoprocta odata (Hewitson, further northwards to the state of Jammu & Kashmir 1865) Known distributon untl this study: India (Chitral, Brown Onyx Horaga albimacula viola (Moore, 1882) Himachal Pradesh) (van Gasse 2013; Varshney & Smetacek Known distributon untl this study: India (Western 2015; Smetacek 2016; Sondhi & Kunte 2018; Anonymous Ghats of Kerala and Karnataka, Himachal Pradesh, 2018c). Utarakhand, Sikkim, Arunachal Pradesh), Nepal, Bhutan, Journal of Threatened Taxa | www.threatenedtaxa.org | 26 June 2018 | 10(7): 11984–11987 11985 New Lycaenid buterfy records from Jammu & Kashmir, India Sharma & Sharma. Bangladesh, Myanmar (Kehimkar 2014, 2016; Varshney © Neeraj Sharma & Smetacek 2015; Smetacek 2016; Anonymous 2018d; Sondhi & Kunte 2018). Remarks: One individual was spoted in the botanical gardens (320m) of Government Gandhi Memorial Science College, Jammu on a sunny morning on 13 November 2017. The individual, a fast fier, suddenly dropped from the nearby plantaton to setle over the leaf of Catharanthus roseus (L.) G.Don (Image 5) for a few seconds before fying away to be never seen again. The species has so far been recorded untl Himachal Pradesh and thus a new
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