New Bird Species Nacaduba Sinhala Found

A group of lepidopterists discovers a new species of butterfly. It was named as “Nacaduba Sinhala Ramaswamii Sadasivan”.

Note: A lepidopterist is a person who specializes in studying butterflies and moths.

About the New Species:

It is a Line Blue Butterfly Species that belongs to the Nacaduba genus group.
- Line Blues are small butterflies belonging to the subfamily Lycaenidae.
- Their distribution ranges from India and Sri Lanka to the whole of southeastern Asia, Australia and Samoa.
This butterfly species was discovered in the Agasthyamalai in the Western Ghats a decade ago. But now it found a place in the Journal of Threatened Taxa.
It is the first time that a butterfly species was discovered by an all-Indian research team from the Western Ghats.

About Journal of Threatened Taxa(JoTT):

It is an open-access peer-reviewed, monthly international journal on conservation and taxonomy.
The journal is published by the wildlife conservation and research NGO Zoo Outreach Organisation (ZOO).

Source: IE

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