Help!
The names given with the butterflies are the best approximations I
could reach after consulting the following books:
- Common Butterflies of India by Thomas Gay,
Isaac David Kehimkar, and Jagdish Chandra Punetha (1993)
- Butterflies of Peninsular India
by Krushnamegh Kunte (2000)
- Butterflies of Sikkim Himalaya by Meena Haribal (1994)
- Butterfly Encyclopedia by Wijbren Landman (1999)
Further identifications (and corrections) will be gratefully received! I particularly
need help with the photos of skippers,
caterpillars and moths. I would
appreciate info even about their genus or family. Send your
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I would like to thank the following for identifying some of the butterflies on these pages:
- Roger Kendrick (Many of the i/d's in the Moths gallery)
- Felix Lin (The geometric moth Pseudomicronia caelata)
- Isaac Kehimkar (Sorrel Sapphire Heliophorus sena)
- S. Karthikeyan (Three-spot Grass Yellow Eurema blanda)
- Krushnamegh Kunte (Lesser Punch Dodena dipaea, Lesser Three Ring Ypthima inica, Pale Palm Dart Telicota colon, Common Grass Dart Taractrocera
maevius)
- S. Kalesh (Pale Palm Dart Telicota colon, Common Grass Dart Taractrocera
maevius, Rare Swift Parnara ganga, Rice Swift Borbo cinnara, Straight Swift Parnara bada)
- Chitra Shanker (Castor Semilooper caterpillar Achaea janata)
Amber Habib
Last Modified: February 26 2006