Brief information and images of butterflies.

1. Butterflies of Uttar Banga Krishi Viswavidyalaya
Pundibari Main Campus, Cooch Behar, West Bengal, India
Dr Tusar K. Ghosal
Department of Entomology, Faculty of Agriculture
Uttar Banga Krishi Viswavidyalaya, Pundibari-736165, Cooch Behar
West Bengal, India
E mail : drtkghosal@gmail.com
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Date of publication : 13.03.2020

2. Butterfly and skipper
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum:Arthropoda
Subphylum: Hexapoda
Class: Insecta Linnaeus 1758
Order : Lepidoptera ( Moths, butterflies and skippers)
Butterflies and Skippers:
Usually brighter in colour,(although some butterflies and skippers are
dark or pale brown)
Wings are not linked, frenulum and/or jugam absent.
Forelegs reduced, missing terminal segments
Butterflies frequently fold their wings above their backs when they are
perched although they will occasionally "bask" with their wings spread
for short periods. Fly during the day (Diurnal).
Pupae (chrysalids) do not form cocoon.

3. Lepidoptera include Moth, Butterfly
and skipper
There are about 1,60,000 species including 64
Super-families, 127 families where most are
moths (87%), rest are butterflies (five families)
and skippers ( single family).
There are about 18,000 species of Butterflies from
the world and only 1501 species of butterflies
from India were recorded.

4. Family : Satyridae (Brown)
Recent advancement :
Family : Nymphalidae
Sub family : Satyrinae
Fore legs of male and female adults reduced,
Tibia are short .

5. Common Evening Brown, Melanitis leda (Linn.)
Bengali name : Sanjla
Dry Season Morph ©
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UBKV/CB/Bu 10

6. Wet season morph
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UBKV/CB/Bu 10
Common Evening Brown, Melanitis leda (Linn.)
Bengali name : Sanjla

7. Common Palmfly, Elymnias hypermenstra (Linn.)
Bengali name : KHAYERCHAK
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Front or dorsal view
Ventral view
Female
Larval food :
Areca catechu,
Cocos nicifera
Male
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CB/Bu 101

8. Common Palmfly, Elymnias hypermenstra (Linn.)
Bengali name : KHAYERCHAK Male

9. Bamboo, Lethe europa Fab. 1775
Bengali name : Bansori
Larval host plants :
Bambusa spp.,
Microstegium ciliatum,
CB/Bu 102

10. Dark banded Brushbrown, Mycalesis mineus Linn. 1758
Bengali name : Khayerabira
Larval host plants : Oryza sativa and other grasses
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CB/Bu 103

11. Common Bushbrown , Lethe rohria Fab. 1787
Bengali name : Chut bansae
Larval host plants :
Apluda spp.,
Capilipedium sp.,
Microstegium ciliatum,
Impereta cylindrical
CB/Bu 104

12. Common Five ring, Ypthima baldus, Fab. 1775
Bengali name : Panchbundi
Dry season Form
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CB/Bu 105

13. Common Five ring, Ypthima baldus, Fab. 1775
Bengali name : Panchbundi
Larval host plants :
Cynodon dactylon
Wet Season Form

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CB/Bu 106

15. Common Four Ring, Ypthima huebneri Kirby 1871
Bengali name : Charbudi
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CB/Bu 107

16. Medus Bush Brown, Orsotriaena medus Fab. 1775
Bengali name : Kalamati
Medus Bush Brown WSF
Larval host plants :
Impereta spp., Oryza sativa and other
grasses
CB/Bu 108

17. Longbanded Brushbrown, Mycalesis visala Moore 1857
Bengali name : Tantrabira
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Larval host plant : Oryza sativa
CB/Bu 109

18. Red Eye Brushbrown, Mycalesis adolphei
Bengali name : Lalchok
Front view
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CB/Bu 111

19. Red Eye Brushbrown, Mycalesis adolphei
Bengaliname : Lalchok
Ventral view
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CB/Bu 111

20. References
Ghosal, T.K. (2013). Lepidopteran insect fauna of Uttar Banga Krishi
Viswavidyalaya Campus, West Bengal, India. Indian Journal of Social and Natural
Science. 2 (1) : 51-60.