Abstract
The Himalayan state of Jammu and Kashmir, owing to variety of habitats, different climatic regimes and a wide range of altitude offers conducive habitats to butterflies ranging from low level hills of Shiwaliks to Trans-Himalayan landscapes of Ladakh through mighty Pir-Panjal and Valley of Kashmir. It is noteworthy that these mountainous landscapes though rich in insect diversity are the least known for butterfly fauna. The present note describes the new records based on opportunistic surveys of butterflies on the sidelines of avian surveys conducted in Jammu Shiwaliks during the years 2015 and 2016.
Highlights
The Himalayan state of Jammu & Kashmir, owing to a variety of habitats, different climatic regimes ISSN 0974-7907 (Online) and a wide range of altitudes, offers ISSN 0974-7893 (Print) conducive habitats to butterflies ranging from the low level hills of OPEN ACCESS the Shiwaliks through Pir-Panjal and the valley of Kashmir to the Trans-Himalayan landscapes of Ladakh
While Kashmir has been a major attraction for different entomologists and naturalists (Home 1938; Mani & Singh 1962; Das et al 1964; Das & Verma 1965; Qureshi 2014) followed by Ladakh (Meinertzhagan 1927; Tshikolovets 2005; Sidhu et al 2012; Sondhi et al 2017), only a few efforts have been made to inventorize the butterflies with a few scattered studies in the Jammu Shiwaliks (Sharma & Sharma 2017)
The present communication is based on the opportunistic surveys of butterflies conducted in the Jammu Shiwaliks during 2015 and 2016
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