Anisha Sapkota

University of Florida | UF · McGuire Center of Lepidoptera and Biodiversity

We report two significant butterfly sightings in the United States, observed during an opportunistic photographic survey conducted in south Texas between December 2022 and January 2023. Parrhasius moct- ezuma (Clench, 1971) (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae) was sighted at the National Butterfly Center in Mission, Texas, on January 5, 2023, marking the firs...

We report two significant butterfly sightings in the United States, observed during an opportunistic photographic survey in south Texas in December 2022 and January 2023. Parrhasius moctezuma (Clench, 1971) (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae) was sighted at the National Butterfly Center in Mission, Texas, on January 5, 2023, marking the first documented reco...

Eastern New Mexico, part of the Great Plains in the USA, has often been neglected for its studies of butterfly diversity because of its arid climate and flat landscape. This study assessed the species richness and abundance of butterflies in two sub-ecoregions of the Great Plains in central eastern NM, including the Semiarid Canadian Breaks and the...

Nepali names have been proposed for the butterfly species found in Nepal, including a specific name for the word "moth". These names are derived from creative translations of their existing English names, or notable features such as colors, behaviors, larval host plants, or their significant cultural and societal roles in Nepal. The principal goal...

A county-wide survey was conducted to locate populations of Megathymus yuccae coloradensis C. Riley, 1877 (Yucca Giant-Skipper) throughout 2023 in public lands in Roosevelt County, New Mexico. Local populations of the giant skipper were found in two separate minimally disturbed prairie habitats: one near the Portales Softball Complex and one next t...

A specimen of Historis acheronta (Fabricius) was found while studying the butterfly collection at the Natural History Museum of Eastern New Mexico University, Portales. The specimen was collected at Portales in 1986 and is a new butterfly record for New Mexico.

Twelve species of Scutelleridae were recorded during a survey between 2019-2021 in Nepal. Two recorded species are new to the known Scutelleridae fauna of Nepal. Both species, Hotea curculionoides (Herrich-Schäffer, 1836) and Tetrarthria variegata Dallas, 1851 were documented from Lakeside, Kaski District in May, 2019 and September, 2021 respective...

YOU DO NOT NEED A RESEARCHGATE ACCOUNT TO DOWNLOAD THIS BOOK. PLEASE CLICK ON THE LINK AND THEN ON THE “DOWNLOAD FULL TEXT” BUTTON. This catalogue provides currently valid scientific and standard common English names and additional information on the 692 species of butterflies found in Nepal, including photographs of 100 species, most of which are...

Robber flies with their prey were collected from 2014-2021 in several eastern New Mexico counties and one county in west Texas. A few were merely photographed in the same areas in 2022. One hundred and one asilid-butterfly pairs were collected representing 17 species of robber flies and 19 species of butterflies. Three pairs were photographed repre...

A female individual of Sanaa regalis (Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1895) was collected in the Tanahun district of Central Nepal in September 2021. This katydid had been reported prior from India in the East Himalayas and Chhattisgarh in Central India. This is the first record of this species from the Central Himalayas, Nepal. The female of this species d...

New distribution records of some butterfly species of Nepal are provided in terms of geographical area, season, and elevation based on our observations from early 2017 to late 2021. Seven new species: Hasora taminatus (Hübner, 1818), Hasora vitta (Butler, 1870), Celaenorrhinus pyrrha de Nicéville, 1889, Seseria sambara (Moore, [1866]), Coladenia ag...

Mortonagrion aborense Laidlaw, 1914 is recorded for the first time from Chitwan, Nepal. One male individual was photographed at Agriculture and Forestry University (AFU), Rampur, Chitwan, 26 September 2021. The total number of Odonata species recorded from Nepal is raised to 181.

New distribution records of Eurema andersoni jordani Corbet & Pendlebury (Lepidoptera: Pieridae) from three locations in Nepal are presented

While P. machaon was only reported in Nepal from elevations as low as 980 a.m.s.l (van der Poel & Smetacek, in prep.), lately several individuals were spotted in Terai region at elevations as low as 230m. This paper presents the new distribution record of P. machaon from lower elevations of Nepal. Surendra Pariyar, an expert on Nepal butterflies, h...

This paper includes additional distribution records of Lycaenidae in Nepal with reference to Colin Smith’s distribution records (1994; 2011a; 2011b;2016). Most findings are based on photographic records. ID keys from Evans (1927; 1932) have been followed.

An individual of Pantoporia sandaka davidsoni Eliot, 1969-Extra Lascar was recorded from Nepal in February 2020 in the premises of Agriculture and Forestry University, Chitwan. The addition of this new record enriches the total number of butterfly species in Nepal while raising the total number of species in the genus Pantoporia found in here to 2.