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v3i2.51
Volume 3 | Number 2 | November 2011 v3i2.51 taprobanica 3 2

v3i2.51

Volume 3 | Number 2 | November 2011
Major Article
ISSN: 1800-427X (print)
eISSN: 1800-427X (online)
DOI:10.47605/tapro.v3i2.51

Submitted date: 10 May 2011
Accepted date: 24 November 2011
Published date: 20 December 2011
Pp. 86–92.

TAXONOMIC STATUS AND STUDIES OF THREE HIGH ALTITUDE BUTTERFLIES Polyommatus LATREILLE, 1804 AND A NEW RECORD OF P. florenciae (TYTLER, 1926) FROM INDIA

Avtar Kaur Sidhu*, Charn Kumar & H.S. Rose
*Corresponding author. E-mail: avtarkaur2000@gmail.com

Abstract
The status of three species of high altitude butterflies, Polyommatus Latreille, 1804, from the Indian Himalayas has been assessed and the species P. florenciae (Tytler, 1926) has been recorded for the first time from India. Details of the genitalia for each species are illustrated and described for the first time.

Key words : Lycaenidae, Polyommatinae, genitalia, Himalayas, taxonomy, Lepidoptera

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