note on the rediscovery of the Redspot butterfly Zesius chrysomallus Hübner, 1819 (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae: Theclinae) from Uttar Pradesh State, with a new larval host plant record for India

Priyanka Kumari; Taslima Sheikh

doi:10.35249/rche.47.2.21.24

Revista Chilena de Entomología (Jun 2021)

note on the rediscovery of the Redspot butterfly Zesius chrysomallus Hübner, 1819 (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae: Theclinae) from Uttar Pradesh State, with a new larval host plant record for India

Priyanka Kumari,
Taslima Sheikh

Affiliations

Priyanka Kumari: ORCiD; Sir Vithaldas Thackersey College of Home Science, S.N.D.T. Women's University, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India.
Taslima Sheikh: ORCiD; Baba Ghulam Shah Badshah University, Dhanore, Jammu & Kashmir, India.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.35249/rche.47.2.21.24
Journal volume & issue: Vol. 47, no. 2
pp. 399 – 404

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Zesius chrysomallus Hübner, 1819 – The Redspot – is rediscovered from Varanasi area in Uttar Pradesh State after 108 years. Cordia dichotoma G. Forst, 1786 of Boraginaceae family is new addition to list of larval host plants from India.

Published in Revista Chilena de Entomología

ISSN: 0034-740X (Print); 0718-8994 (Online)
Publisher: Sociedad Chilena de Entomología
Country of publisher: Chile
LCC subjects: Science: Zoology
Website: http://www.biotaxa.org/rce

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