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Emperor and Silk Moths (Family: Saturniidae ) of India, Nepal, Bhutan and Srilanka    

Hawk Moths ( Family: Sphingidae ) of India, Nepal, Bhutan and Srilanka

Butterfly fauna of the Sanjay Gandhi National Park and Mumbai, Maharashtra
Following species must have been added by mistake and are not found in the Mumbai region, unless there is photographic evidence or collected specimen.
[Southern Birdwing Troides minos Cramer, 1779] [Indian Purple Emperor Apatura ambica Kollar, 1844] [Himalayan Dart Potanthus dara Koll] [ Plains Royal Tajuria jehana Moore, 1883 ]
If you happen to photograph these species in and around Mumbai region please mail it to malabartreenymph at gmail.com.
Status of some of the butterflies are also not consistent and probably would require more rigorous field visits.
For example: Tawny Rajah [ Charaxes bernardus Fabricius, 1793 ] - Not rare , Monkey Puzzle [ Rathinda amor Fabricius, 1775 ] - Locally Common , Apefly [ Spalgis epius Westwood, 1851 ] - Uncommon, Small Branded Swift[ Pelopidas mathias Fabricius, 1798 ] - Very Rare, Dark Branded Swift [ Pelopidas agna Moore, 1865 ] - Common, Continental Swift [Parnara ganga Evans, 1937] - Uncommon
Supplemtary notes by Isaac Kehimkar and Nikhil Bhopale

An annotated checklist of the butterflies of Bangladesh(Lepidoptera, Rhopalocera)
Torben B. Larsen [ LARSEN, T.B. 2004. Butterflies of Bangladesh - an annotated checklist. IUCN, Bangladesh. 158pp, 8 colour plates ] Click Here

A review of West Himalayan Neptini ( Nymphalidae).
By Peter Smetacek [ Journal of the Lepidopterists Society 65(3), 2011, 153-161 ] Click Here

Butterflies (Lepidoptera) of Dibang Valley, Mishmi Hills, Arunachal Pradesh, India .
By Monsoon Jyoti Gogoi [ Gogoi, M.J. (2012). Butterflies (Lepidoptera) of Dibang Valley, Mishmi Hills, Arunachal Pradesh, India.
Journal of Threatened Taxa 4(12): 3137-3160] Click Here

Butterflies of India
Annotated Checklist Compiled By Paul Van Gasse Click Here

Butterflies of Melghat Tiger Reserve,Maharashtra with notes on their abundance, status and larval host plants.
By Wadatkar,J. S. & Kasambe, [ TheEcoscan,2008 2(2):165-171 ] Click Here

Butterflies (Lepidoptera - Rhopalocera) of the Achanakmar-Amarkantak Biosphere Reserve, in Chhattisgarh and Madhya Pradesh, with a synopsis of the recorded butterfly fauna of the eastern Central Highlands in India.
By Ashish D. Tiple and Kumar Ghorpade [Colemania, Number 26 , pp. 1-38 1 Published : 15 April 2012 ] Click Here

Butterfly larval host plant use in a tropical urban context: Life history associations, herbivory, and landscape factors.
By Ashish D. Tiple, Arun M. Khurad, and Roger L. H. Dennis [ Journal of Insect Science: Vol. 11 | Article 65 ] Click Here

Lowland forest butterflies of the Sankosh River catchment, Bhutan
By Dr. Arun P. Singh [ Singh, A.P. (2012). Lowland forest butterflies of the Sankosh River catchment, Bhutan. Journal of Threatened Taxa 4(12): 3085 - 3102 ] Click Here

Morphological and colour pattern associations of male mate location behavior in Central Indian butterflies.
By Ashish D. Tiple, Arun M. Khurad, Sonali V. Padwad, and Roger L. H. Dennis [ Trends in Entomlogy Vol 7 ,55-66, 2011]. Click Here

On the anomalous distribution of West Himalayan Troidini and Papilionini ( Papilionidae ).
By Peter Smetacek [ Journal of the Lepidopterists Society 65(2), 2011, 126-132 ] Click Here

Rarity in Oak Forest Butterflies Of Garhwal .
By Arun P. Singh [ ENVIS Bulletin: Arthropods and their Conservation in India, Vol. 14, No1.2011, 140-146] Click Here