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List of recorded Rhopalocera in Mizoram campus area. Related photographs of some mentioned species are provided in Appendix I.
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A survey for the diversity of Rhopalocera at the Mizoram University (MZU) campus was carried out in selected areas with different habitat types. Pollard walks sampling method was adopted, and 16 randomly selected permanent line transects were established in three different sites. The length of the studied transacts was 500 m and the breadth was a r...
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... species of Rhopalocera from six families were recorded from three sampling sites inside campus area (Table 1). The highest species record was made from the family Nymphalidae (50%), which included 39 species, followed by family Papilionidae (15%) with 12 species, Hesperiidae (13%) with 10 species, Lycaenidae (11%) with 9 species, Pieridae (10%) with 8 species and Riodinidae with 1 species only (Table 2). ...Context 2
... the recorded Rhopalocera, five species are included in the schedule categories as per Wildlife (Protection) Amendment Act, 2022. These species are Euploea Neptis sappho (Pallas, 1771) midamus WPA schedule-I, Castalius rosimon schedule-I, Jamides alecto schedule-II, Euploea mulciber, schedule-IV and Polytremis discreta schedule-IV (Table 1). Presence of these threatened species was also reported from the Dibang valley in the Arunachal Pradesh of eastern Himalaya (Gogai, 2012). ...