Cyllogenes janetae de Nicéville, 1887 - Scarce Evening Brown

Subspecies in India

(1) Cyllogenes janetae janetae de Nicéville, 1887 – Himalayan Scarce Evening Brown
(2) Cyllogenes janetae fascialata Smiles, 1973 – Naga Scarce Evening Brown

Recently, Cyllogenes janetae loba Lang & Huang, 2012 – Tibetan Scarce Evening Brown has been reported from Dibang Valley, Arunachal Pradesh, presumably co-occurring with the nominotypical subspecies (Singh and Das 2016). This needs to be verified (Das, Singh and Chandra 2020).

  This species is legally protected in India under Schedule I of the Wildlife (Protection) Act, 1972.
 

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  This species is legally protected in India under Schedule I of the Wildlife (Protection) Act, 1972.
 
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Das GN, Singh N, Chandra K. 2020. Notes on the genus Cyllogenes Butler, 1868 (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae: Satyrinae) from India. Trop. Lepid. Res., 30:115–25.

Singh AP, Das DJ. 2016. Butterfly Atlas of Arunachal Pradesh, India. Dehra Dun: Forest Research Institute. pp. 463.

 

Page citation

Anonymous 2024. Cyllogenes janetae de Nicéville, 1887 – Scarce Evening Brown. In Kunte, K., S. Sondhi, and P. Roy (Chief Editors). Butterflies of India, v. 4.12. Published by the Indian Foundation for Butterflies. URL: https://www.ifoundbutterflies.org/cyllogenes-janetae, accessed 2024/12/05.