Volume 24, Issue 73, January - June, 2023

Further additions to the list of light attracted butterflies from India

Soumyajit Chowdhury^1♦, Avishek Talukdar²

¹Dept of Zoology, MUC Women’s College, Burdwan, West Bengal, India
²Lepidoptera Section, Zoological Survey of India, Kolkata, India

^♦Corresponding author
Dept of Zoology, MUC Women’s College, B. C. Road, Burdwan, West Bengal India

ABSTRACT

Most nocturnal insects, including moths show attraction towards artificial lights at night. Butterflies, being mostly diurnal occasionally respond to this phenomenon of light attraction. The present article reports an addition of four butterfly species, Papilio polymnestor, Tajuria cippus, Euthalia duda and Udaspes folus to the existing list of 35 butterflies from different parts of India. A seasonal predisposition has been observed, particularly during the monsoon - post monsoon months, when most of these unique phototactic nocturnal events by the butterflies were recorded.

Keywords: Light-attraction, Artificial light, Butterfly, India

Species, 2023, 24(73), e19s1019

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.54905/disssi/v24i73/e19s1019

Published: 25 February 2023