scholarly journals Annotated checklist of butterflies of Ankleshwar—an industrial town in Gujarat, India

Check List ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 16 (4) ◽  
pp. 997-1015
Author(s):  
Azaz Sidat ◽  
Urjit Bhatt
Keyword(s):  
Species Diversity ◽  
Habitat Fragmentation ◽  
Conservation Planning ◽  
Ecological Indicators ◽  
Butterfly Species ◽  
Wildlife Protection ◽  
Industrial Town ◽  
Annotated Checklist ◽  
Potential Use ◽  
Insight Into

Urbanization threatens the diversity of butterflies due to habitat fragmentation with environmental degradation. Butterflies, as potent pollinators and ecological indicators, are important in conservation planning and environmental monitoring. This study provides a comprehensive insight into the species diversity of butterflies in Ankleshwar, an industrial town in Gujarat, India, and has potential use in urban planning and conservation. A total of 63 species belonging to five families were photo-documented and identified. The richest family was Nymphalidae, followed by Pieridae, Lycaenidae, Hesperiidae, and Papilionidae. Junonia Hübner, [1819] and Colotis Hübner, [1819] were the dominant genera with five species each. Six species have the IUCN status of Least Concern but 57 species are Not Evaluated. Seven species are afforded protection under the Wildlife Protection Act, 1972. This study highlights the need to conserve rare and threatened butterfly species.

scholarly journals Diversity of butterflies in an arboretum of Vadodara, Gujarat, India

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2017 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 2073
Author(s):  
Urjit M. Bhatt ◽  
P. S. Nagar
Keyword(s):  
Species Diversity ◽  
Plant Diversity ◽  
General Health ◽  
Ecological Indicators ◽  
Butterfly Species ◽  
Butterfly Diversity ◽  
The Rich ◽  
Insight Into

Potent pollinators and ecological indicators, butterflies are important for estimating the general health of an ecosystem. Owing to the rich plant diversity (927 species), an arboretum in Vadodara, state of Gujarat, India was selected for surveying butterfly diversity. Our survey was conducted in all seasons for an entire year from October 2012 to October 2013 and revealed 61 species. Recorded were six species of Papilionidae, three species of Hesperiidae, 20 species of Nymphalidae, 13 species of Pieridae, and 19 species of Lycaenidae. Junonia dominated with five species, followed by Eurema (three species), Graphium (three species), and Chilades (three species). Our study gives a comprehensive insight into the species diversity and richness of butterflies in Vadodara and highlights the need to conserve rare and threatened butterfly species there.

scholarly journals Diversity of butterflies in an arboretum of Vadodara, Gujarat, India

Check List ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-15 ◽  
Author(s):  
Urjit M. Bhatt ◽  
P.S. Nagar
Keyword(s):  
Species Diversity ◽  
Plant Diversity ◽  
General Health ◽  
Ecological Indicators ◽  
Butterfly Species ◽  
Butterfly Diversity ◽  
The Rich ◽  
Insight Into

Potent pollinators and ecological indicators, butterflies are important for estimating the general health of an ecosystem. Owing to the rich plant diversity (927 species), an arboretum in Vadodara, state of Gujarat, India was selected for surveying butterfly diversity. Our survey was conducted in all seasons for an entire year from October 2012 to October 2013 and revealed 61 species. Recorded were six species of Papilionidae, three species of Hesperiidae, 20 species of Nymphalidae, 13 species of Pieridae, and 19 species of Lycaenidae. Junonia dominated with five species, followed by Eurema (three species), Graphium (three species), and Chilades (three species). Our study gives a comprehensive insight into the species diversity and richness of butterflies in Vadodara and highlights the need to conserve rare and threatened butterfly species there.

Butterfly (Lepidoptera: Rhopalocera) fauna of Jabalpur City, Madhya Pradesh, India

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (11) ◽  
pp. 16607-16613
Author(s):  
Jagat S. Flora ◽  
Ashish D. Tiple ◽  
Ashok Sengupta ◽  
Sonali V. Padwad
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Species Diversity ◽  
The State ◽  
Madhya Pradesh ◽  
Butterfly Species ◽  
Wildlife Protection ◽  
City Area

The present study was carried out to reveal the butterfly species diversity in the Jabalpur City, Madhya Pradesh, India.  Study was carried out from January 2008 to 2018. A total of 112 species were recorded, with an addition of 41 new species for Jabalpur district and one species for the state of Madhya Pradesh.  Of the total, 42 species were very common, five were frequent common, 18 were rare, and four were very rare. Nymphalidae was dominant with 39 species, followed by Lycaenidae with 38, Pieridae with 15 species, Hesperiidae with 14, Papilionidae with eight and Riodinidae with one species.  About six species of the recorded ones come under the protection category of the Indian Wildlife (Protection) Act, 1972.  The study illustrated the value of Jabalpur City area in hosting valuable resources for butterflies.  

Frugivorous butterflies in Venezuelan forest fragments: abundance, diversity and the effects of isolation

1999 ◽  
Vol 15 (6) ◽  
pp. 703-722 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ghazala Shahabuddin ◽  
John W. Terborgh
Keyword(s):  
Species Diversity ◽  
Habitat Fragmentation ◽  
Species Composition ◽  
Dry Season ◽  
Butterfly Species ◽  
Forest Fragments ◽  
Interspecific Differences ◽  
Species Responses ◽  
Source Populations ◽  
Abundance And Diversity

Frugivorous butterflies were studied in a set of forested islands (0.1 to 1.15 ha) in a reservoir in eastern Venezuela to investigate the effects of fragmentation and the resulting isolation on their abundance, diversity and species composition. While some islands showed reduced abundance and species diversity in comparison to unfragmented (or control) sites, others did not. Isolation status affected both butterfly abundance and diversity. Islands located close to their colonizing sources (0.1–1 km) tended to support similar densities of butterflies but lower numbers of species in comparison to control sites. Far fragments (1–3 km from their colonizing sources) tended to harbour lower butterfly densities in comparison to control sites but undiminished numbers of species. Species composition varied significantly between control sites and islands and amongst control sites, near islands and far islands. Interspecific differences were observed in species' responses to fragmentation. Charaxines, medium-sized satyrines, morphines and brassolines may be vulnerable to extinction after habitat fragmentation while small-sized satyrines may be relatively resistant. Observations during the dry season indicate that butterfly species may exist as mainland-island metapopulations in Lago Guri, in which small habitat fragments require recolonization every year from source populations in large islands and mainland habitat.

An Insight Into the Butterflies (Lepidoptera, Papilionoidea) Associated With Protected Area Network of Uttarakhand, Western Himalaya

2020 ◽  
pp. 154-178
Author(s):  
Manoj Kumar Arya ◽  
Aman Verma
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Diversity ◽  
Critical Review ◽  
Protected Area ◽  
Western Himalaya ◽  
Butterfly Species ◽  
Area Network ◽  
Protected Area Network ◽  
Annotated Checklist ◽  
Total Species ◽  
Insight Into

Uttarakhand has a rich tradition to conserve its immense array of biological and cultural diversity. An annotated checklist on butterfly diversity and distribution across protected areas of state Uttarakhand is provided here which is a culmination of published literature over a period of the last 38 years (1981-2018). The list comprises 393 butterfly species under 188 genera and six families. The local status was also assigned to the compiled species of butterflies after critical review of referred literature, wherein 22.70% of the total species were found ‘rare' while 41 species of butterflies are entirely lacking published record from the last many decades. A total of 51 species compiled in the present checklist, which was reported based on its presence or absence unique and rare to a particular protected area, are the species of concern as they might face extinction through slight alterations in their habitats.

scholarly journals Butterflies of Garhwal, Uttarakhand, western Himalaya, India

2016 ◽  
Vol 8 (4) ◽  
pp. 8666 ◽  
Author(s):  
Arun P. Singh ◽  
Sanjay Sondhi
Keyword(s):  
Relative Abundance ◽  
Western Himalaya ◽  
The State ◽  
Butterfly Species ◽  
Biotic Factors ◽  
Vegetation Types ◽  
Wildlife Protection ◽  
Butterfly Diversity ◽  
Annotated Checklist

Thirty percent of butterfly species that occur in India are found in the Garhwal region of the western Himalaya, which comprise six districts of Uttarakhand State with five major vegetation types lying between the catchments of the Ganga and Yamuna rivers.  The annotated checklist compiled here for this region comprises 407 species and takes into account all the species recorded since 1899, when the first list of 323 species was prepared by Mackinnon & de Nicéville on the ‘butterflies of Mussoorie and its adjacent areas’.  Over a 20 year period (1986–1990; 2000–June 2015) the present authors maintained detailed notes and were able personally to record 349 species.  This information is presented in a checklist, together with details of the month, year and site of each record, relative abundance, Indian Wildlife (Protection) Act, 1972 (IWPA) status, as well as references of earlier records made by other authors in Garhwal for those species that the authors were not able to record themselves.  Forty-nine species recorded in the region have been placed under various schedules of IWPA; only one species, the Golden Emperor Dilipa morgiana Westwood, is listed in Schedule I Part IV, the others being mainly included under Schedule II Part II.  The paper also discusses new range extensions and significant records (past and present), identifies major biotic factors that threaten butterfly diversity in Garhwal, and suggests the scope for butterfly ecotourism in the state as an option for long term conservation.  

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