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VOLUME 23, NO. 4 QUARTERLY OCTOBER—DECEMBER, 2021
BIONOTES
A Quarterly Newsletter for Research Notes and News
On Any Aspect Related with Life Forms
Cover Photo of Athyma nefte by Rajib Dey
From Volume 21
Published by the Entomological Society of India (ESI), New Delhi (Nodal Officer: V.V.
Ramamurthy, ESI, New Delhi)
And
Butterfly Research Centre, Bhimtal
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
EDITORIAL COMMENT ON BUTTERFLIES INCLUDED IN THE SCHEDULES OF THE
WILDLIFE (PROTECTION) AMENDMENT BILL, 2021
by Peter Smetacek 150
TRIUMFETTA RHOMBOIDEA (MALVACEAE) AS NEW LARVAL HOST PLANT FOR THE
GREAT EGGFLY BUTTERFLY HYPOLIMNAS BOLINA (LEPIDOPTERA: NYMPHALIDAE)
by Raju Kasambe & Dilip Giri 153
NEW DISTRIBUTIONAL RECORD OF EUASPA MOORE, 1884 (LEPIDOPTERA:
LYCAENIDAE: THECLINAE) FROM SIKKIM, INDIA
by Janukit Lepcha, Sonam Wangchuk Lepcha, Monish Kumar Thapa, Achintya Pran Hazarika,
Nosang Muringla Limboo & Sonam Pintso Sherpa 156
ARECA PALM DYPSIS LUTESCENS (ARECACEAE) AS NEW LARVAL HOST PLANT FOR
THE INDIAN PALM BOB SUASTUS GREMIUS (FABRICIUS, 1798) (INSECTA:
LEPIDOPTERA: HESPERIIDAE)
by Raju Kasambe & Geeta Manchekar 158
MALLOTUS PHILIPPINENSIS (EUPHORBIACEAE): A NEW LARVAL HOST PLANT FOR
LOBSTER MOTH STAUROPUS ALTERNUS WALKER, 1855 (LEPIDOPTERA:
NOTODONTIDAE)
by Raju Kasambe, Hrishikesh Ghogare & Dilip Giri 160
AN ADDITION TO THE BUTTERFLIES OF ARUNACHAL PRADESH: VEINED PALMER
HIDARI BHAWANI
by Mayur H Variya, Roshan Upadhaya, Minom Pertin, Ruksha Limbu, Mitum Rumdo & Monsoon
Jyoti Gogoi 163
RECORD OF THE WHITE-PATCH SERGEANT ATHYMA PUNCTATA (INSECTA:
LEPIDOPTERA: NYMPHALIDAE) FROM ANINI, ARUNACHAL PRADESH, INDIA
by Anung Lego, Joho Tayu, Timai Miwu, Minom Pertin, Mayur H Variya, Roshan Upadhaya &
Monsoon Jyoti Gogoi 166
FIRST RECORD OF DESERT BATH WHITE BUTTERFLY PONTIA GLAUCONOME (KLUG,
1829) (LEPIDOPTERA: PIERIDAE) FROM RAJASTHAN, INDIA
by Souvick Mukherjee, Kushankur Bhattacharyya & Sourabh Biswas 169
SIGHTINGS OF THE TAILLESS LINEBLUE PROSOTAS DUBIOSA (INSECTA:
LEPIDOPTERA: LYCAENIDAE) IN DELHI, INDIA
by Rajesh Chaudhary & Chandra Bhusan Maurya 171
RUMEX MARITIMUS L. (POLYGONACEAE): A NEW LARVAL HOST PLANT FOR
EUREMA HECABE (INSECTA: LEPIDOPTERA: PIERIDAE)
by Aditya Karmakar & Rajib Dey 173
SOCIO-ECONOMIC SURVEY IN RELATION TO TRADE OF TURTLES IN TWO
DISTRICTS OF UTTAR PRADESH, INDIA
by Renu Singh, Netrapal Singh Chauhan & Shailendra Singh 176
THE GENUS XANDRAMES MOORE, 1867 (INSECTA: LEPIDOPTERA: GEOMETRIDAE) IN
INDIA
by B. Lalnghahpuii & Peter Smetacek 185
149
OCCURRENCE OF ANOMALOUS NAWAB POLYURA AGRARIUS (INSECTA:
LEPIDOPTERA: NYMPHALIDAE) CONFIRMED IN UTTAR PRADESH, INDIA
by Babita Sharma, Sushmita & Ashok Kumar 190
CONFIRMATION OF THE PRESENCE OF MATAPA ARIA (INSECTA: LEPIDOPTERA:
HESPERIIDAE) IN UTTAR PRADESH
by Sushmita, Babita Sharma & Ashok Kumar 192
EARTHWORM (ANNELIDA: OLIGOCHAETA) DIVERSITY AT SAGAR ISLAND, SOUTH
24 PARGANAS DISTRICT, WEST BENGAL
by Amit Chowdhury 194
DIVERSITY OF TUSSOCK MOTHS BELONGING TO TRIBE NYGMIINI
HOLLOWAY,1999 (LYMANTRIINAE: EREBIDAE: LEPIDOPTERA) FROM CHITTAGONG
UNIVERSITY, BANGLADESH WITH THREE NEW RECORDS
by Md. Jahir Rayhan, J.K. Owaresat Irfan, Sayema Jahan & M. A. Habib Siam 197
FIRST RECORD OF KING CROW EUPLOEA KLUGII (INSECTA: LEPIDOPTERA:
NYMPHALIDAE) FROM THE KUMAON HIMALAYA, INDIA
by Ambica Agnihotri 200
BIBASIS SENA AND PORITIA HEWITSONII (INSECTA: LEPIDOPTERA: HESPERIIDAE &
LYCAENIDAE) RECORDED FROM UTTAR PRADESH, INDIA
by Apoorva Gupta 202
ANIMAL RIGHTS IDEOLOGY AND ANIMAL WELFARE PHILOSOPHY IN THE INDIAN
CONTEXT
by Ryan Lobo & Meghna Uniyal 204
REPORT ON A LIVE GYNANDROMORPH OF THE COLOR SERGEANT BUTTERFLY
ATHYMA NEFTE INARA (INSECTA: LEPIDOPTERA: NYMPHALIDAE) FROM INDIA
by Kurban Khan, Rajib Dey, Atanu Bose, Shantanu Dey, Anitava Roy & Sourabh Biswas 218
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NEW DISTRIBUTIONAL RECORD OF EUASPA MOORE, 1884
(LEPIDOPTERA: LYCAENIDAE: THECLINAE) FROM
SIKKIM, INDIA
JANUKIT LEPCHA1, SONAM WANGCHUK LEPCHA2, MONISH KUMAR THAPA3*,
ACHINTYA PRAN HAZARIKA4, NOSANG MURINGLA LIMBOO5 AND SONAM
PINTSO SHERPA6
1 Nar Bahadur Bhandari Government Degree College Gangtok, Sikkim, 737102
2 Noom Panang Village, GPU Passingdang Saffo, Upper Dzongu, North Sikkim, 737116
3,4 Department of Zoology, Gauhati University, Jalukbari, Assam, 781014
3monish.awrro@gmail.com
5 Darap, Gayzing District, Sikkim, 737113
6 Rimbi, Gayzing District, Sikkim, 737113
Reviewer: Peter Smetacek
The Lycaenid genus Euaspa Moore, 1884,
commonly known as hairstreak butterflies, is
distributed across the Himalayan range to
southeastern Asia (Wangchuk et al., 2021).
According to Das et al., (2019), there are 14
species of Euaspa worldwide. Koiwaya (2002)
described six new species of Euaspa from
different countries of southeast Asia such as
Laos, Myanmar, India and Vietnam, of which
two were described from India, namely: E.
miyashitai Koiwaya, 2002 from Darjeeling in
West Bengal and E. mikamii Koiwaya, 2002
from Arunachal Pradesh. Sidhu (2007)
reported E. milionia from Uttarakhand and
Himachal Pradesh. Koiwaya (2007)
recognized 12 species under Euaspa genus.
Recently, E. uedai was described from China
(Koiwaya 2014). Huang (2016) described E.
zhengi from China.
Five species of Euaspa are reported from India
till date, namely: Euaspa milionia milionia
(Hewitson, [1869]), E. pavo (de Nicéville,
1887), E. mikamii Koiwaya, 2002, E.
miyashitai Koiwaya, 2002 (Varshney &
Smetacek 2015) and E. motokii Koiwaya 2002
(Das et al., 2019). Gupta and Mondal (2005)
mentioned E. pavo (de Nicéville, 1887) from
Assam (Margherita) and Nagaland. Recently,
Das et al. (2019) reported the first record of E.
motokii Koiwaya, 2002 from India and a new
distribution record of E. mikamii Koiwaya,
2002 from Dihing-Dibang Biosphere Reserve
of Arunachal Pradesh, India. More recently,
Wangchuk et al., (2021) recorded E. pavo and
E. motokii from Bhutan. This paper
contributes a new locality to the known
distribution range of E. pavo from the state of
Sikkim, India.
Observation
On 09.xi.2021, a single individual of E. pavo
was photographed (Image 1, 2) at around
15:34 hr near Lingdem, Upper Dzongu, North
Sikkim, India and the elevation is
approximately 3614 m. The individual was
sighted in a dry basement besides agroforestry
land, where the species was basking in the sun.
Since the original description of E. pavo by de
Nicéville from Bhutan, de Nicéville (1890)
mentioned that a male specimen of this species
was also collected from Margherita in Upper
Assam by Mr. Doherty and later Tytler (1915)
also reported male and female specimens from
Naga Hills (Nagaland).
The present report extends the known
distribution of the species westwards to
Sikkim.
Acknowledgements
Vol. 23 (4), December, 2021 BIONOTES
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The authors are grateful to Tarun Karmakar for
identifying the species and Bhubakanta
Sharma, Sagarmani Rasaily, Silendra Dewan
for providing us with valuable information.
Our sincere thanks to Mr. Nosang Muringla
Limbo for his immense guidance.
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Fig.1 & 2: Euaspa pavo (de Nicéville, 1887)