Sighting of Pontia daplidice moorei (Röber) (Lepidoptera: Pieridae: Pierinae) from Meghalaya, Northeastern India: a new locality record

Atanu Bora; Laishram Ricky Meitei; Sachin Sharma; Suman Bhowmik; Ngangom Aomoa

doi:10.35249/rche.46.3.20.10

Revista Chilena de Entomología (Aug 2020)

Sighting of Pontia daplidice moorei (Röber) (Lepidoptera: Pieridae: Pierinae) from Meghalaya, Northeastern India: a new locality record

Atanu Bora,
Laishram Ricky Meitei,
Sachin Sharma,
Suman Bhowmik,
Ngangom Aomoa

Affiliations

Atanu Bora: Department of Zoology, Moran College, Assam, 785670, India.
Laishram Ricky Meitei: Botanical Survey of India, Eastern Regional Centre, Shillong, 793003, Meghalaya, India.
Sachin Sharma: Botanical Survey of India, Northern Regional Centre, Dehradun, 248195, Uttarakhand, India.
Suman Bhowmik: Lepidoptera Conservation and Research Division, Wild Tripura Foundation, Agartala, Tripura, 799007, India.
Ngangom Aomoa: Department of Physics, Assam Don Bosco University, Assam, 782402, India.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.35249/rche.46.3.20.10
Journal volume & issue: Vol. 46, no. 3
pp. 453 – 457

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The farmland visitor Bath White, Pontia daplidice moorei is recorded for the first time in Meghalaya. The butterfly is documented in an opportunistic survey on 17.v.2015 along the GuwahatiShillong road, near Shangbangla village at an elevation of 520 meters. This record will help in updating the status of butterfly fauna in Meghalaya, 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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