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Journal of Threatened Taxa Building evidence for conservaton globally www.threatenedtaxa.org ISSN 0974-7907 (Online) | ISSN 0974-7893 (Print) Note The first record of The Blue Admiral Kaniska canace Linnaeus, 1763 (Nymphalidae: Lepidoptera) from Bangladesh Amit Kumer Neogi, Md Jayedul Islam, Md Shalauddin, Anik Chandra Mondal & Safayat Hossain 26 September 2018 | Vol. 10 | No. 10 | Pages: 12429–12431 10.11609/jot.3442.10.10.12429-12431 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 September 2018 | 10(10): 12429–12431 Note The first record of The Blue Admiral districts of Bangladesh (Shahadat et Kaniska canace Linnaeus, 1763 al. 2015; Neogi et al. 2016; Rahman (Nymphalidae: Lepidoptera) from et al. 2016; Sadat et al. 2016). Bangladesh The buterfy Kaniska canace ISSN 0974-7907 (Online) Linn. was recorded from Kauyargola ISSN 0974-7893 (Print) Amit Kumer Neogi 1 , Md Jayedul Islam 2 , forest beat in Rajkandi Reserve 0 0 Md Shalauddin 3 , Anik Chandra Mondal 4 & Forest (24.302 N & 91.917 E), OPEN ACCESS Safayat Hossain 5 Kamalganj Upazila, Moulvibazar District (Fig. 1) on 17 March 2017, 1 Aquatc Bioresource Research Lab., Faculty of Fisheries and as part of a study on buterfies Aquaculture, Sher-e-Bangla Agricultural University, Dhaka 1207, Bangladesh. initated in March, 2011, intensively covering the 2,3,4,5 Department of Zoology, Jagannath University, Dhaka 1100, northeastern forest ranges within the core area of Bangladesh Rajkandi Reserve Forest. The species was photographed 1 [email protected] (corresponding author), 2 jayedzoology14@ hotmail.com, 3 [email protected], 4 anikjnu007@ during the survey, with both the under (Image 1) and gmail.com, 5 [email protected] upper wing (Image 2) views for species confrmaton. The species was found to frequently setle on wet sands and damp patches, with a few instances of fast fying and During the last fve years, many rare species of restng on fern leaves. Like other nymphalids, occasional buterfies have been reported from the northeastern basking with open wings and vibraton of its wings when and southeastern parts of Bangladesh which are new to susceptble to threat or disturbance were also observed. the country. Considering the foral diversity and habitat It was also pugnacious and highly territorial with other variatons, the northeastern region of Bangladesh hosts species of buterfies. Only a single species, however, diversifed faunal components like the northeastern was sighted during the entre survey period in the study state of Assam in India. Most of the protected areas of area. this part of Bangladesh contain mixed tropical evergreen Short descripton: Upper wing color of the sighted forests, especially in Moulvibazar District under Sylhet individual was indigo blue with broad silvery blue discal Division (Sadat et al. 2016). This district contains a band on both wings. On this band there were small black good number of forest areas with prevalent and diverse spots between the veins. FW apex was square cut and animal forms like buterfies, birds and mammals. The strongly concave along termen. Hind wing had small tail forest areas of Moulvibazar provide good shelter or at vein 4. Underwing color was cryptcally motled dark habitat for diversifed buterfy fauna. Recently, some brown and black. remarkable new records have been enlisted in the Remarks: Palaearctc buterfies are normally buterfy fauna from Moulvibazar and its adjacent restricted to the Himalayan mountain ranges, with DOI: htps://doi.org/10.11609/jot.3442.10.10.12429-12431 | ZooBank: urn:lsid:zoobank.org:pub:12A24134-4486-496D-A481-C8CC5AA8E039 Editor: Soumyajit Chowdhury, M.U.C Women’s College, Burdwan, India. Date of publicaton: 26 September 2018 (online & print) Manuscript details: Ms # 3442 | Received 06 April 2017 | Final received 07 August 2018 | Finally accepted 11 September 2018 Citaton: Neogi, A.K., M.J. Islam, M. Shalauddin, A.C. Mondal & S. Hossain (2018). The frst record of The Blue Admiral Kaniska canace Linnaeus, 1763 (Nymphalidae: Lepidoptera) from Bangladesh. Journal of Threatened Taxa 10(10): 12429–12431; htps://doi.org/10.11609/jot.3442.10.10.12429-12431 Copyright: © Neogi et al. 2018. Creatve Commons Atributon 4.0 Internatonal License. JoTT allows unrestricted use of this artcle in any medium, reproducton and distributon by providing adequate credit to the authors and the source of publicaton. Funding: Self funded. Competng interests: The authors declare no competng interests. Acknowledgements: Authors are grateful to the Buterfy Bangladesh team and Department of Zoology, Jagannath University for their logistc supports in this survey. We are also deeply indebted to Bangladesh Forest Department for their helpful cooperaton during this survey. 12429 First record of Blue Admiral from Bangladesh Neogi et al. Figure 1. GIS map of the Kamalganj Upazila including Rajkandi Reserve Forest, Adompur (green area) under Moulvibazar District, selected as the present area of study. the excepton of very few species viz., Pieris canidia Himalayan region between 1,000m and 3,000m, and in Linnaeus, 1768; Colias erate Esper, 1805; Argyreus the southern Indian hills between 1,000m and 1,200m hyperbius Linnaeus, 1763; Vanessa indica Herbst, 1794, (Kehimkar 2013). and Kaniska canace Linnaeus, 1763 that occur in the The present study thus confrms the presence of K. southern Indian mountains as well (Larsen 1986). K. canace in Rajkandi Forest at Adompur by successfully canace seems to have been rarely recorded from the presentng the frst photographic evidence in plains and prefer hill forests. In the last two decades, K. Bangladesh. This partcular species of buterfy seems canace has been sighted from a few locatons of Assam, to always be in this area, but the season and tme of India (Bhuyan et al. 2005; Naik & Mustak 2016) which its occurrence barred earlier surveys. This study also is more than 600km from the present study area. K. emphasizes on the need for a comprehensive buterfy canace, however, has been reported to be present in the study in the partcular area, that will further enrich the 12430 Journal of Threatened Taxa | www.threatenedtaxa.org | 26 September 2018 | 10(10): 12429–12431 First record of Blue Admiral from Bangladesh Neogi et al. © Md. Jayedul Islam © Amit Kumer Neogi Image 1. Kaniska canace Linn. (underwing view) on wet sand at Image 2. Kaniska canace Linn. (upperwing view) restng on fern leaf Rajkandi Reserve Forest with open wings at Rajkandi Reserve Forest existng list of buterfies in Bangladesh. Sadat, M.N., A.K. Neogi, M.S. Rahman & A.C. Mondal (2016). 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