Butterflies of J&K | Reasi Butterflies - Field Guide | 2021|

BUTTERFLIES  OF  J&K

Butterflies are Insects within the macrolepidopteran clade Rhopalocera from the order Lepidoptera, which also includes moths. grownup butterflies have big, regularly brightly coloured wings, and conspicuous, fluttering flight.

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Painted Lady

Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Nymphalidae
Genus: Vanessa
Species: Cardui

Vanessa cardui is a well-known colourful butterfly, known as the painted lady, or formerly in North America as the cosmopolitan.


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Himalayan Bathwhite

                   Kingdom:Animalia.               
  Phylum:Arthropoda
Class:Insecta
Order:Lepidoptera
Family:Pieridae
Genus:Pontia
Species: Daplidice

Pontia daplidice, the Bath white, is a small butterfly of the family Pieridae, the yellows and whites, which occurs in the Palearctic region. It is common in central and southern Europe, migrating northwards every summer, often reaching southern Scandinavia and sometimes southern England.


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Sliver Streakblue

            Kingdom: Animalia             
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Lycaenidae
Genus: Iraota
Species: Timoleon

Iraota timoleon, the silverstreak blue, is a species of lycaenid or blue butterfly found in Asia.
















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Common wall

Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Nymphalidae
Genus: Vanessa
Species: Cardui
Lasiommata schakra, the common wall, is a species of satyrine butterfly found in South Asia.

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Western bluesapphire   

Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Lycaenidae
Genus: Heliophorus
Species: Bakeri 
 

Heliophorus bakeri, the western blue sapphire, is a small butterfly found in India that belongs to the lycaenids or blues  family.


               
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