The state of Tripura North-east India is a part the Indo-Myanmar biodiversity hotspot and rich in unique biological flora fauna. present study based on extensive surveys done by author for period 5 years different parts North Tripura, India. Here, I total 21 genera 51 species that are new additions to butterfly fauna Tripura. These records include 18 Hesperiidae, 12 Lycaenidae, 17 Nymphalidae 4...

Butterflies are elegant, beautiful, and charming insects due to their colourful squamate. They a great source of economic beautification indicators for biodiversity agroecsystem. In addition this, they more important pollinators flora than the flies moths. An investigation several locations in Taluka Larkana with goal collecting as many specimens butterflies was carried out from March July 2022...

Butterflies are the bio-indicator species for monitoring health of ecosystem. A preliminary checklist butterfly diversity was prepared by a long-term survey from 2019 to 2022 in varied habitats agriculture landscape Himachal Pradesh Agriculture University (HPAU), India. The study recorded 77 belonging six families Nymphalidae, Pieridae, Lycaenidae, Hesperiidae, Papilionidae and Riodinidae. In a...

two species of tachinidae, masicera sphingivora (robineau & desvoidy) and bithia glirina (rondani), were collected from pupae and larvae of hyles euphorbiae (l.) (lep.: sphingidae) and chamaesphecia schizoceriformis kolenati (lep.: sesiidae) respectively. masicera sphingivora belongs to the subfamily exoristinae and has mostly been reared from the larvae of sphingidae, especially the genus hyle...

The Oleriina is one of the most speciose subtribes of the neotropical nymphalid butterfly tribe Ithomiini. They are widely distributed across the Andes and Amazonian lowlands and like other ithomiines they are involved in complex mimicry rings. This subtribe is of particular interest because it contains the most diverse ithomiine genus, Oleria, as well as two genera, Megoleria and Hyposcada, th...

It was generally believed that butterflies and other holometabolous insects rely primarily on reserves accumulated during the larval stage for reproduction. Recent studies, however, highlight the often fundamental importance of adult nutrition to realize the full reproductive potential. While the importance of carbohydrates is fairly well understood, the role of most other adult-derived substan...

Pollen feeding behaviors Heliconius and Laparus (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae) represent a key innovation that has shaped other life history traits of these neotropical butterflies. Although all flower visiting Lepidoptera regularly come in contact with pollen, only Heliconius and Laparus butterflies actively collect pollen with the proboscis and subsequently take up nutrients from the pollen grain...

In temperate insects the evolution of growth strategies and the optimal age and size at maturity will depend strongly on seasonal variation in temperature and other resources. However, compared to photoperiod, temperature itself is a relatively poor predictor of seasonal change and timing decisions in insects are often most strongly influenced by the photoperiod. Here I review the evolution of ...