Natural history of Large Cabbage White Pieris brassicae nepalensis Gray, 1846 (Lepidoptera: Pieridae) on Nasturtium, Tropaeolum majus (Tropaeolaceae) in Uttarakhand, India

Bhawana Kapkoti Negi; Ravindra K. Joshi

doi:10.11609/jott.3900.10.6.11815-11817

Journal of Threatened Taxa (May 2018)

Natural history of Large Cabbage White Pieris brassicae nepalensis Gray, 1846 (Lepidoptera: Pieridae) on Nasturtium, Tropaeolum majus (Tropaeolaceae) in Uttarakhand, India

Bhawana Kapkoti Negi,
Ravindra K. Joshi

Affiliations

Bhawana Kapkoti Negi: Ministry of Environment Forest and Climate Change, Indira Paryavan Bhawan, Jor Bagh Road, New Delhi 110003, India
Ravindra K. Joshi: G.B. Pant National Institute of Himalayan Environment and Sustainable Development, Kosi-Katarmal, Almora, Uttarakhand 263643, India

DOI: https://doi.org/10.11609/jott.3900.10.6.11815-11817
Journal volume & issue: Vol. 10, no. 6
pp. 11815 – 11817

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Larval food preferences and various life cycle stages of Pieris brassicae nepalensis, a white butterfly of family pieridae was observed on Tropaeolum majus, nasturtiun, the Indian Cress an orange coloured, garden ornamental plant, in district Almora, Uttrakhand.

Published in Journal of Threatened Taxa

ISSN: 0974-7893 (Print); 0974-7907 (Online)
Publisher: Wildlife Information Liaison Development Society
Country of publisher: India
LCC subjects: Science: Biology (General): Ecology; Science: Natural history (General): General. Including nature conservation, geographical distribution
Website: https://threatenedtaxa.org/

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