Ypthima nareda (Kollar, [1844])

Sharma, Narender & Goswami, Prathana, 2020, Short Communication Sighting of large three-ring, Ypthima nareda (Kollar, [1844]) (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae: Satyrinae) in Arunachal Pradesh, India, Records of the Zoological Survey of India 120 (4), pp. 513-516 : 515

Ypthima nareda (Kollar, [1844]) ( Figure 1 & 2 )

1844. Satyrus nareda Kollar , in Hügel, Kaschmir und das Reich der Siek, 4: 451.

Moore (1874), while describing Ypthima newara Moore, 1874 as a new species from Nepal, has mentioned that it can be separated from its closely allied species, Y. nareda Kollar on the basis of larger size, with ocelli of both sexes much larger on underside and position of the ocellus on the forewing being less inwardly oblique. Marshall & de Niceville (1883) recorded Y. newara from Sikkim, Assam and Upper Burma and stated that it is not improbable that this may be merely a geographically variety of Y. nareda which it replaces in the Eastern Himalaya. Elwes & Edwards (1893) examined male genitalia but figured only the uncus and the valva of these species. Evans (1932), Talbot (1947) and D’Abrera (1985) did not give much importance to the male genitalic studies of Elwes & Edwards (1893) and considered newara as a subspecies of nareda .

Evans (1932) and Talbot (1957) have given three subspecies of Y. nareda (Kollar) i.e., Y. nareda nareda (Kollar, 1844) from Kashmir to Kumaon, Y. nareda newara Moore, 1874 from Sikkim to Assam and Y. nareda sarcaposa Fruhstorfer, 1911 from Assam to Shan States. However, Rose and Sharma (1999) mentioned that nareda and newara are nearly sibling species and studied the male and female genitalia of both the species and found that the species are completely different to each other. Rose and Sharma (1999) mentioned that Y.nareda is restricted only to North-Western Himalaya.

The distribution of Ypthima nareda Kollar is restricted only to North-Western Himalaya as mentioned by the earlier workers ( Marshall and de Niceville, 1883; Elwes and Edwards, 1893; Bingham, 1905; D’Abrera, 1985; Mani, 1986). However, workers like Evans (1932) and Talbot (1947), considered newara as subspecies of nareda and mentioned the distribution of newara from Nepal to Sikkim and Assam. Gogoi (2012) did not considered newara as independent species as has been mentioned by Rose and Sharma (1999), followed Evans (1932) and Talbot (1947), and reported distribution of nareda newara from Arunachal Pradesh. The workers like Sondhi and Kunte (2016) and Singh (2017) did not mention the occurrence of nareda in Arunachal Pradesh. However, Kehimkar (2008) in his book on Indian Butterflies gave the distribution of nareda from Kashmir to Arunachal and did not include newara which is mentioned by the earlier workers from North-East ( Evans, 1932; Talbot, 1947; Sondhi and Kunte, 2016; Singh, 2017). The earlier workers ( Evans, 1932; Talbot, 1947; Gogoi, 2012) have mentioned Y. nareda newara , and Kehimkar (2008) perhaps followed them and did not include subspecies in his book. In fact, the species reported earlier from Arunachal Pradesh is Ypthima newara and not Y.nareda , because both have specific status now and the photo given

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Figure 2. Ypthima nareda (Kollar) (male, ventral side).