Callerebia scanda

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Pallid argus
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Nymphalidae
Genus: Callerebia
Species:
C. scanda
Binomial name
Callerebia scanda
Kollar, 1844

Callerebia scanda, the pallid argus, is a brown (Satyrinae) butterfly that is found in the Himalayas. [1] [2]

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Range

The butterfly is found in Afghanistan, [1] and the Himalayas from Safed Koh, Astor, Chilas, Gilgit, Chitral, Kashmir and Kulu eastwards across to Sikkim. [3] [4]

Status

As per William Harry Evans, it is common from Chitral to Sikkim, and not rare westwards. [3]

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References

  1. 1 2 "Callerebia Butler, 1867" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
  2. LepIndex shows this taxon as Satyrus swaha.[Beccaloni, G.; Scoble, M.; Kitching, I.; Simonsen, T.; Robinson, G.; Pitkin, B.; Hine, A.; Lyal, C., eds. (2003). "Satyrus swaha". The Global Lepidoptera Names Index . Natural History Museum.] LepIndex considers the genus Aulocera Butler, 1867; Ent. mon. Mag. 4: 121, TS: Satyrus brahminus Blanchard to be a junior subjective synonym of Satyrus Latreille 1810 Cons. gén. Anim. Crust. Arach. Ins.: 355, 440, TS: Papilio actaea Linnaeus.[Beccaloni, G.; Scoble, M.; Kitching, I.; Simonsen, T.; Robinson, G.; Pitkin, B.; Hine, A.; Lyal, C., eds. (2003). "Satyrus". The Global Lepidoptera Names Index . Natural History Museum.
  3. 1 2 Evans, W.H. (1932). The Identification of Indian Butterflies (2nd ed.). Mumbai, India: Bombay Natural History Society. p. 116, ser no D11.3.
  4. Haribal, Meena (1992). The Butterflies of Sikkim Himalaya and Their Natural History. Gangtok, Sikkim, India: Sikkim Nature Conservation Foundation. p. 149.