Abstract
The butterfly surveys were conducted across different regions of Jammu province right from southern alluvial plains of Chenab and Ravi to Great Himalayas through Shiwaliks and Pir-Panjal mountains during June 2016 to February 2018. The areas covered included Kalidhar and Dalhori forests, district Rajouri (west), Mansar-Surinsar-Manwal range, districts Jammu, Samba and Udhampur (south), Mansar-Manwal, Billawar-Basoholi-Bani, district Kathua (east), Bhaderwah, district Doda (north), and Paddar in district Kishtwar (northeast) within an elevational range of 320 m to 3200 m (Fig. 1). During the explorations, we observed eight Lycaenid butterfly species previously not recorded from the state of Jammu and Kashmir.
Highlights
The Jammu region of the Himalayan state of Jammu & Kashmir has been the least explored for ISSN 0974-7907 (Online) butterflies and there is a substantial ISSN 0974-7893 (Print) lack of information on their habitat range and distribution except for few OPEN ACCESS scattered reports (Sharma & Sharma 2017)
The Jammu region offers a wide range of habitats contained in different geographical and climatic regimes ranging from the southern alluvial plains of Ravi and Chenab to the moderately elevated Shivaliks, Pir-Panjal and Great Himalaya further northwards bordering Kashmir in the north and Ladakh in the north-east
The recent reports on new records and range extension suggests that the region is least explored and underrepresented in terms of butterfly fauna in comparison to the neighbouring states of Uttarakhand, Himachal Pradesh and Punjab
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