Melanitis leda Cramer

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 : 81

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.26515/rzsi/v118/i1/2018/121626

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/0393B32C-1C36-162D-FCD6-FC2C39E1B9DD

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scientific name

Melanitis leda Cramer
status

 

21. Melanitis leda Cramer View in CoL (Photo 21a,b)

Melanitis lela Moore, 1758 , Syst. Nat. (ed. 10): 474.

Material examined: (7♂♂ 4♀♀). India: Punjab: PAU,

12.v.2008, Katewa, A. Seni and P.C. Pathania (1♂ 1♀), PAU, 23.viii.2009, S. Chandel and P.C. Pathania (2♂ 1♀), PAU, 21.x.2010, Vijay and P. C. Pathania (1♂ 1♀), PAU

16.viii.2012, Sunita, Kritika and P.C. Pathania (1♂ 1♀), PAU, 8.ix.2013, Avi Kumar and P.C. Pathania (1♂), PAU,

4.vii.2015, Sachin and P.C. Pathania (1♂).

Distribution: It ranges from Indo-Malayan Region down to Australia, Burma, Ceylon ( Bingham, 1907).

Host plant: Apluda spp., Cyrtococcum spp., Eleusine spp., Oplismenus composites , Oryza sativa, Panicum spp., Sorghum spp., Zea spp., ( Kunte, 2000).

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Lepidoptera

Family

Nymphalidae

Genus

Melanitis

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