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Download Download PLATINUM The Journal of Threatened Taxa (JoTT) is dedicated to building evidence for conservaton globally by publishing peer-reviewed artcles OPEN ACCESS 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, reproducton, and distributon of artcles in any medium by providing adequate credit to the author(s) 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) Short Communication Butterfly (Lepidoptera: Rhopalocera) fauna of Jabalpur City, Madhya Pradesh, India Jagat S. Flora, Ashish D. Tiple, Ashok Sengupta & Sonali V. Padwad 26 August 2020 | Vol. 12 | No. 11 | Pages: 16607–16613 DOI: 10.11609/jot.4168.12.11.16607-16613 For Focus, Scope, Aims, Policies, and Guidelines visit htps://threatenedtaxa.org/index.php/JoTT/about/editorialPolicies#custom-0 For Artcle Submission Guidelines, visit htps://threatenedtaxa.org/index.php/JoTT/about/submissions#onlineSubmissions For Policies against Scientfc Misconduct, visit htps://threatenedtaxa.org/index.php/JoTT/about/editorialPolicies#custom-2 For reprints, contact <[email protected]> The opinions expressed by the authors do not refect the views of the Journal of Threatened Taxa, Wildlife Informaton Liaison Development Society, Zoo Outreach Organizaton, or any of the partners. The journal, the publisher, the host, and the part- Publisher & Host ners are not responsible for the accuracy of the politcal boundaries shown in the maps by the authors. Member Threatened Taxa Journal of Threatened Taxa | www.threatenedtaxa.org | 26 August 2020 | 12(11): 16607–16613 ISSN 0974-7907 (Online) | ISSN 0974-7893 (Print) PLATINUM OPEN ACCESS DOI: htps://doi.org/10.11609/jot.4168.12.11.16607-16613 #4168 | Received 29 March 2020 | Final received 23 July 2020 | Finally accepted 30 July 2020 S h o Buterfy (Lepidoptera: Rhopalocera) fauna of Jabalpur City, r t Madhya Pradesh, India C o 1 2 3 4 m Jagat S. Flora , Ashish D. Tiple , Ashok Sengupta & Sonali V. Padwad m u 1 46, Napier Town, Jabalpur, Madhya Pradsh 482001, India. n 2 i Department of Zoology, Vidyabhart College, Seloo, Wardha, RTM Nagpur University Nagpur, Maharashtra 442104, India. c 2,4 Tropical Forest Research Insttute, Jabalpur, Madhya Pradesh 482021, India. a 3 Kendriya Vidyalaya No. 1 Jalahalli, Bengaluru, Karnataka 560015, India. t 1 [email protected], 2 [email protected] (corresponding author), 3 [email protected], 4 [email protected] i o n Abstract: The present study was carried out to reveal the buterfy ongoing disagreements between taxonomists over the species diversity in the Jabalpur City, Madhya Pradesh, India. Study status of many species. was carried out from January 2008 to 2018. A total of 112 species were recorded, with an additon of 41 new species for Jabalpur district and The Indian subcontnent with a diverse terrain, one species for the state of Madhya Pradesh. Of the total, 42 species climate, and vegetaton hosts about 1,504 species of were very common, fve were frequent common, 18 were rare, and four were very rare. Nymphalidae was dominant with 39 species, followed buterfies (Tiple 2011) of which peninsular India hosts by Lycaenidae with 38, Pieridae with 15 species, Hesperiidae with 14, 351, and the Western Ghats 336. Buterfies enable Papilionidae with eight and Riodinidae with one species. About six sustenance of ecosystem services through their role species of the recorded ones come under the protecton category of the Indian Wildlife (Protecton) Act, 1972. The study illustrated the in pollinaton and serving as important food chain value of Jabalpur City area in hostng valuable resources for buterfies. components. Being potental pollinatng agents of their nectar plants as well as indicators of the health and Keywords: Buterfies, central India, diversity, new records. quality of their host plants (Tiple et al. 2006) and the ecosystem as a whole, exploraton of buterfy fauna thus becomes important in identfying and preserving Among insects, buterfies are sensitve biota potental habitats under threat. severely afected by the environmental variatons In central India the buterfy species diversity was and changes in the forest structure as they are closely reported earlier by Forsayeth (1884), Swinhoe (1886), dependent on plants (Pollard 1991). Buterfies are Betham (1890, 1891), Wit (1909), and D’Abreu (1931) generally regarded as one of the best taxonomically who documented a total 177 species occurring in the studied groups of insects; they have been studied erstwhile Central Provinces (now Madhya Pradesh systematcally since the early 18th century and about and Vidarbha). Subsequent monumental works and 18,000 species are documented worldwide (Martnez fauna volumes include several species from Madhya et al. 2003). This fgure is not constant because of the Pradesh and Chhatsgarh (Evans 1932; Talbot 1939, contnuous additon of new buterfies and also due to 1947; Wynter-Blyth 1957). In the recent past, several Editor: Soumyajit Chowdhury, M.U.C Women’s College, Burdwan, India. Date of publicaton: 26 August 2020 (online & print) Citaton: Flora, J.S., A.D. Tiple, A. Sengupta & S.V. Padwad (2020). Buterfy (Lepidoptera: Rhopalocera) fauna of Jabalpur City, Madhya Pradesh, India. Journal of Threatened Taxa 12(11): 16607–16613. htps://doi.org/10.11609/jot.4168.12.11.16607-16613 Copyright: © Flora et al. 2020. Creatve Commons Atributon 4.0 Internatonal License. JoTT allows unrestricted use, reproducton, and distributon of this artcle in any medium by providing adequate credit to the author(s) and the source of publicaton. Funding: None. Competng interests: The authors declare no competng interests. Acknowledgements: Thanks to Dr. K.C. Joshi and Dr. Nitn Kulkarni, Senior Scientst, Tropical Forest Research Insttute, Jabalpur for valuable suggestons and providing facilites. 16607 J TT Buterfy fauna of Jabalpur City Flora et al. workers have studied buterfies from some districts and with the help of feld guides (Wynter-Blyth 1957; Kunte conservaton areas of Madhya Pradesh and Chhatsgarh 2000). The species were categorized on the basis of (Singh 1977; Gupta and Shukla 1987; Chaudhury 1995; their abundance in Jabalpur City. The buterfies were Chandra et al. 2000 a,b, 2002; Singh & Chandra 2002; categorized as VC—Very common (> 100 sightngs), C— Siddiqui & Singh, 2004; Chandra 2006). Chandra et al. Common (51–100 sightngs), FC—Frequent common (2007) recorded 174 species of buterfies belonging to (16–50 sightngs), R—Rare (2–15 sightngs), VR—Very 100 genera under eight families from Madhya Pradesh rare (< 2 sightngs) (Tiple 2012). The species recorded and Chhatsgarh. Singh & Koshta (2008) reported 39 for the frst tme from the Jabalpur district are marked species of buterfies from Jabalpur District, Madhya with asterisk (*), and those which were previously Pradesh. Recently, Tiple (2012) recorded 62 species of unrecorded in Madhya Pradesh are marked with #. buterfies belonging to 47 genera and fve families from TFRI Campus, Jabalpur. Study Sites The present study was started with a view to examine Jabalpur is one of the largest and the most crowded the diversity of buterfies from Jabalpur City. Since cites in Madhya Pradesh and located in the centre there is no published checklist of buterfy from Jabalpur of India at 23.16°10’7.57’’N and 79.93°55’54.64’’E. city prior to this, the present work could be the baseline Jabalpur City has a humid subtropical climate having for further research. three main seasons: the wet monsoon season from June to October, the cool dry winter from October to March, Materials and Methods and the hot dry season from April tll the onset of the The fndings presented in the artcle are based on rains in the beginning of June. The temperature of the opportunistc sampling and photo documentaton was city ranges from a minimum of 10°C to a maximum carried out on a biweekly basis from 2008 to 2018 in and of 45°C with a relatve humidity 10–15% to 60–95%. around Jabalpur City. Identfcaton of the buterfies Annual precipitaton is 1,386mm. was primarily made directly in the feld. In critcal All the study sites were within and around Jabalpur conditon specimens were collected only with handheld City within a radius of 20km. Buterfies were surveyed aerial sweep nets and subsequently released without in Dumna Nature Reserve, Dhobi Reserve Forest, Lower harm. Each specimen was placed in plastc botles Gaur Reserve Forest, city gardens, Tropical Forest and carried to the laboratory for further identfcaton Research Insttute (TFRI), Airport Road, Medical College Image 1. Jabalpur City. Source: Google Earth 16608 Journal of Threatened Taxa | www.threatenedtaxa.org | 26 August 2020 | 12(11): 16607–16613 J TT Buterfy fauna of Jabalpur City Flora et al. Campus, Bhedaghat, Pariyat Tank, Parashuram Kund, Madan Mahal Hills, areas adjacent to river Narmada and Bargi dam during the monsoon and post monsoon period (Image 1). Results and Discussion During the course of study 112 species of buterfies referable to 71 genera, belonging to six families were recorded. This study added 41 species as new records for Jabalpur District and one species for Madhya Pradesh. The highest number of buterfies belonged to the family Nymphalidae (39 species) with nine new records (viz.: Athyma selenophora, Byblia ilithyia, Charaxes psaphon, Figure 1. The number of buterfy species encountered in diferent Euploea klugii, Mycalesis visala, Phaedyma columella, families in the Jabalpur City, Madhya Pradesh. Nepts jumbah, Ypthima sterope, and Ypthima indica). This was followed by the Lycaenidae with 38 species and19 new records (viz.: Acytolepis puspa, Amblypodia anita, Anthene lycaenina, Azanus ubaldus, Chilades lajus, Everes lacturnus, Iraota tmoleon, Jamides celeno, Prosotas dubiosa, Rapala manea, Spindasis icts, Spindasis schistacea, Tajuria cippus, Talicada nyseus, Tarucus balkanicus, Tarucus callinara, Zizeeria karsandra, Azanus gesous, and Caleta decidia).
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