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Parantica melaneus subsp. plataniston Chocolate Tiger
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Description
35. Parantica melaneus plataniston (Fruhstorfer, 1910) (Chocolate Tiger)
Remarks. One single individual was recorded on 06.xi.2019, at Betlingchhip (23°48’51” N & 92°15’33” E, ca. 827 m above msl.) in Jampui Hills while nectaring on a wild plant. This species is very rare throughout the state.
Current known distribution. Nepal, Myanmar, India (Uttarakhand to Northeast India; Nicobar Island) (Van Gasse 2013; Varshney & Smetacek 2015).
Notes
Published as part of Bhowmik, Suman, 2021, Fifty-one new additions to the butterfly (Lepidoptera: Rhopalocera) fauna of Tripura, North-east India, pp. 35-60 in Revista Chilena de Entomología (Rev. Chil. Entomol.) (Rev. Chil. Entomol.) 47 (1) on page 51, DOI: 10.35249/rche.47.1.21.04, http://zenodo.org/record/10950112
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Biodiversity
- Family
- Nymphalidae
- Genus
- Parantica
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Lepidoptera
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Scientific name authorship
- Chocolate Tiger
- Species
- plataniston
- Taxon rank
- subSpecies
- Taxonomic concept label
- Parantica melaneus subsp. plataniston (Fruhstorfer, 1910) sec. Bhowmik, 2021
References
- Van Gasse, P. (2013) Butterflies of India-annotated checklist. Butterflies of India, Kruibeke, Belgium, 161 pp.
- Varshney, R. K. and Smetacek, P. (2015) A Synoptic Catalogue of the Butterflies of India. Butterfly Research Centre, Bhimtal and Indinov Publishing, New Delhi, ii + pp. 261, 8 pl.