The Western Ghats has two new butterflies: Amathusia travancorica Kunte, 2024 – Travancore Palmking and Athyma inara sahyadriensis Kunte, 2024 – Sahyadri Colour Sergeant, both new to science and endemic to the Western Ghats. See further details in the research paper describing the butterflies:
Kunte. K., and D. N. Basu. 2024. Two new taxa of brush-footed butterflies (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae) from the Western Ghats biodiversity hotspot, southern India. Zootaxa, 5543:343–367.
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