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Four colorful —Dark Addition of four species to the butterfly Himalayan Oakblue rama checklist of Kaleshwar National Park, (Kollar, [1844]), Slate Flash Rapala Haryana, ISSN 0974-7907 (Online) manea (Hewitson, 1863), Gaudy ISSN 0974-7893 (Print) Baron Euthalia lubentina (Cramer, Sachin P. Ranade [1777]), and Orange Oakleaf Kallima OPEN ACCESS inachus Doyere, 1840—were Vulture Conservation Breeding Centre, Belguri Village, Rani, Kamrup District, Assam 781131, India recorded opportunistically, in the [email protected] month of April 2005, at Kaleshwar National Park, Yamunanagar District, Haryana. The Kaleshwar National Park is situated in Lime Papilio demoleus. While most of the butterfly northeastern Haryana where the state shares a border species were identified, a couple of them remained each with Uttarakhand, Uttar Pradesh and Himachal unidentified including the Dark Himalayan Oakblue Pradesh. The National Park comprises of 860km2 area A. rama. The recent record of the Dark Himalayan and its major area consists of Shivalik Hills. The forest Oakblue A. rama from Arunachal (Singh 2015) revived mainly comprises deciduous flora. During a study of my interest. After comparison of my photographs owl diversity, in the period 2004–2005, various beats with available photographs and literature, the identity and ranges of the National Park were visited on foot. of the Dark Himalayan Oakblue butterfly A. rama was By the first week of April 2005, there was the onset of confirmed (Images 2,3). My archive has a total of summer with temperatures rising to around 350C. The five individuals; two males and three females were overall area was dry and hot but the ravines are called photographed on 04 April 2005, along a 30m stretch ‘Khol’ in the local language still had small water streams of the stream. The individuals were taking salts on and a cool-pleasant ambiance. ‘Chikan khol’ (30.370624 the wet, algae-covered rocks. It appears that the N & 77.486735 E; Image 1) was one such destination sighting and photographic records of Dark Himalayan favored by the Indian Eagle owl Bubo bengalensis for Oakblue A. rama could be the first record for Haryana roosting and nesting. While studying the characteristics State. The Dark Himalayan Oakblue A. rama has been of this peculiar habitat, I recorded interesting flora and recorded from Jammu & Kashmir to (Kehimkar fauna around. Among the eye-catching members of the 2008; Singh & Sondhi 2016). The recent nearest known mud-puddling butterflies, a few were photographed, distribution of this species is from Nainital, Bageshwar for example: Slate Flash Rapala manea, Orange Oakleaf and Dehradun districts of Uttarakhand (Singh & Sondhi Kallima inachus, Common Leopard Phalanta phalantha, 2016). The known altitude preference of this species is Gaudy Baron Euthalia lubentina, Baronet Symphaedra mid elevation (900m) to high elevation (2,700m) of the nais, Common Mormon Papilio polytes and Common Himalaya (Kehimkar 2008; Singh 2015), but Tytler (1915)

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Manuscript details: Ms # 3106 | Received 09 November 2016 | Final received 27 June 2017 | Finally accepted 02 July 2017

Citation: Ranade, S.P. (2017). Addition of four species to the butterfly checklist of Kaleshwar National Park, Haryana, India. Journal of Threatened Taxa 9(7): 10490–10492; http://doi.org/10.11609/jott.3106.9.7.10490-10492

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Acknowledgements: The author thanks the Chief Wildlife Warden and field staff of the Department of Forests, Haryana for their kind permission and support for the research. Help of the project field staff Mr. Amar Sing from Chikan Village is duly appreciated. Gratitude is expressed to the Bombay Natural History Society for constant encouragement and support.

10490 Addffon of four buterlfes to Kaleshwar Nafonal Park Ranade

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Image 2. Dark Hfmalayan Oakblue Arhopala rama female mud- puddlfng 04 Aprfl 2005.

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Image 1. Chfkan Khol, Kaleshwar Nafonal Park - a suftable habftat for buterlfes fn the harsh summer photographed on 04 Aprfl 2005. menfoned the specfes fn Manfpur as common at low elevafon. In my observafons at the Kaleshwar Nafonal Park, the buterly was observed at a lower alftude of about 300m. Thfs suggests that apart from alftude, the factors lfke humfdfty and temperature may play an fmportant role fn fts dfstrfbufon. A possfbflfty of local movements and mfgrafon also need to be studfed. © Sachfn P. Ranade

The specfes Slate Flash R. manea , Orange Oakleaf K. Image 3.Dark Hfmalayan Oakblue Arhopala rama & Slate Flash fnachus (Image 4) and Gaudy Baron E. lubenfna (Image Rapala manea mud-puddlfng 04 Aprfl 2005. 5) are common fn Indfa, yet remafn unreported from Haryana State as there fs no comprehensfve buterly checklfst avaflable for the state. The Slate Flash R. manea Ray 2010) had recorded 35 specfes of buterlfes but dfd has been recorded from all over Indfa. The Orange not fnclude these four specfes. My observafons provfde Oakleaf K. fnachus has fts known dfstrfbufon along the recent locafon and photographfc records from Haryana Hfmalaya, northeast as well as penfnsular Indfa. The for these specfes. Gaudy Baron E. lubenfna fs recorded from Hfmachal Buterlfes are consfdered as fndfcators of dfversfty of Pradesh to Arunachal Pradesh as well as fn penfnsular vegetafon and health of the ecosystem (Vu 2007; Nelson Indfa. Its subspecfes Euthalfa lubenfna lubenfna fs 2009; Bonebrake et al. 2010; van Swaay et al. 2012). recorded from Haryana, Odfsha, and Hfmachal Pradesh But to uflfze the knowledge, one needs to develop to northeastern Indfa and West Bengal whfle the baselfne fnformafon. The current avaflable knowledge subspecfes Euthalfa lubenfna arasada fs recorded fn of buterly fauna fn Haryana fs scanty and based only the Western Ghats and penfnsular Indfa (Kehfmkar on opportunfsfc studfes and amateur nature-lovers’ 2008; Varshney & Smetacek 2015; Kunte et al. 2016). knowledge. Planned and fntensfve surveys fn Kaleshwar A buterly survey fn Kaleshwar Nafonal Park (Sethy & Nafonal Park and the whole of Haryana State would

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Communications Dragonflies and Damselflies (Odonata: Insecta) of Keoladeo National Park, Rajasthan, India The status of Arabian Gazelles Gazella arabica (Mammalia: -- Dheerendra Singh, Brijendra Singh & Jan T. Hermans, Cetartiodactyla: Bovidae) in Al Wusta Wildlife Reserve and Pp. 10445–10452 Ras Ash Shajar Nature Reserve, Oman -- Mansoor H. Al Jahdhami, Sultan Al Bulushi, Haitham Al Rawahi, Records of the Indian Sand Snake Psammophis condanarus Waheed Al Fazari, Ahmed Al Amri, AbdulRahman Al Owaisi, Salim (Merrem, 1820) (Reptilia: Lamprophiidae) in southern India Al Rubaiey, Zahran Al Abdulasalam, Metab Al Ghafri, Shaeilendra -- S.R. Ganesh, Vivek Sharma & M. Bubesh Guptha, Pp. 10453– Yadav, Sami Al Rahbi & Steven Ross, Pp. 10369–10373 10458

On the occurrence of the Black Spine-cheek Gudgeon An ecological note on the new record of Cuora amboinensis Eleotris melanosoma Bleeker in Sri Lankan waters, with (Riche in Daudin, 1801) (Reptilia: Testudines: Geoemydidae) comments on the Green-backed Guavina Bunaka gyrinoides in northeastern India (Bleeker) (Teleostei: Eleotridae) -- Kulendra Chandra Das & Abhik Gupta, Pp. 10459–10462 -- Sudesh Batuwita, Sampath Udugampala & Udeni Edirisinghe, 10374–10379 A new distribution record of the European Free-tailed Bat Tadarida teniotis (Chiroptera: Molossidae) from the western Captive breeding for conservation of Dussumier’s Catfish Himalaya, India (Actinopterygii: Siluriformes: Clariidae: Clarias dussumieri) -- Rohit Chakravarty, Pp. 10463–10467 a Near Threatened endemic catfish of peninsular India -- K.G. Padmakumar, L. Bindu, P.S. Sreerekha, Nitta Joseph, Measuring Indian Blackbuck Antilope cervicapra(Mammalia: Anuradha Krishnan, P.S. Manu & V.S. Basheer, Pp. 10380–10385 Cetartiodactyla: Bovidae) abundance at Basur Amruth Mahal Kaval Conservation Reserve, Chikkamagaluru, southern India Influence of seasonal and edaphic factors on the diversity of -- H.S. Sathya Chandra Sagar & P.U. Antoney, Pp. 10468–10472 scolopendromorph centipedes (Chilopoda: Scolopendromorpha) and general observations on their ecology from Kerala, India -- Dhanya Balan & P.M. Sureshan, 10386–10395 Notes

Butterflies of eastern Assam, India A new species of Sarcinella (Ascomycetes) from Eturnagaram -- Arun P. Singh, 10396–10420 Wildlife Sanctuary, Warangal District, Telangana, India -- Khaja Moinuddin Mohammad, Bagyanarayana Gaddam & Rana Kausar, Pp. 10473–10475 Short Communications Re-collection of the Black Catchfly Silene nigrescens Three noteworthy additions to the flora of the western (Caryophyllales: Caryophyllaceae) after 130 years from Indian Himalaya, India western Himalaya -- Ishwari Datt Rai, Amit Kumar, Gajendra Singh, Bhupendra Singh -- Satish Chandra, D.S. Rawat & P.K. Pusalkar, Pp. 10476–10479 Adhikari & Gopal Singh Rawat, 10421–10425 Eight new records of the family Erebidae (: New distribution records of three Sarcophyton species Noctuoidea) from India (Alcyonacea: Alcyoniidae) in Indian waters from -- Jagbir Singh Kirti, Navneet Singh & Harkanwal Singh, Andaman Islands Pp. 10480–10486 -- Seepana Rajendra, C. Raghunathan & Tamal Mondal, 10426– 10432 New records of hover wasps (Hymenoptera: Vespidae: Stenogastrinae) from Bhutan Additions to the Indian dragonfly fauna, and new records of two -- Tshering Nidup, Wim Klein & Phurpa Dorji, Pp. 10487–10489 enigmatic damselflies (Insecta: Odonata) from northeastern India Addition of four species to the butterfly checklist of Kaleshwar -- Shantanu Joshi, Joyce Veino, Dahru Veino, Lightson Veino, National Park, Haryana, India Rakoveine Veino & Krushnamegh Kunte, Pp. 10433–10444 -- Sachin P. Ranade, Pp. 10490–10492

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