Euchrysops cnejus Fabricius

Pathania, P. C., Mangat, H. K. & Sidhu, A. K., 2018, Studies on butterfly diversity (Lepidoptera: Papilionoidea) from Punjab Agricultural University Campus, Ludhiana, Punjab, India, Records of the Zoological Survey of India 118 (1), pp. 75-90 : 77-79

3. Euchrysops cnejus Fabricius (Photo 3a, b)

Hesperia cnejus Fabricius, (1798) , Ent. Syst. Suppl. 430.

Material examined: (24♂♂ 19♀♀). India: Punjab: PAU,

6.v.2009, Amit Katewa and P.C. Pathania (8♂ 4♀), PAU, 1.ix.2010, Vijay and P.C. Pathania (5♂ 3♀), PAU,

20.xi,2012, Sunita , Kritika and P.C. Pathania (6♂ 1♀) , popen fields 30.xi,2012, Sunita , Kritika and P.C. Pathania (1♂ 4♀) , PAU, 13.viii.2013, Avi Kumar and P.C. Pathania (1♂ 2♀) , PAU, 11.viii.2015, Sachin and P.C. Pathania (1♂) , GADVASU, 17.viii.2015, Sachin and P.C. Pathania (1♂ 1♀) , Floriculture garden, 14.viii.2015, Sachin and P.C. Pathania (4♀) , CIPHET, 11.viii.2015, Sachin and P.C. Pathania (1♂) .

Distribution: Species is spread throughout India except at very high elevations and is widely distributed in the Malayan subregion; extending to Australia and the South Sea Islands ( Bingham, 1907).

Host plant: Fabaceae ( Kunte, 2000) .

IV. Genus: Chilades Moore