i wouldn't call this butterfly rare, but certainly uncommon. i don't have any records from andhra pradesh but i do have records from the eastern ghats.
At 6:35 PM +0530 11/19/09, Pinakin Karve wrote: >Hi > > I was going through my old photographs. >I was checking Photographs from 6th Butterfly >Meet - Maredumilli, Andhra Pradesh. There was >one photograph which was in UN ID section and >wasn't identified till date. I went through >Isaac's book and found it to be Large 4 Line >blue. > > As per the isaac's book this butterfly >is rare and found either in western ghats or in >N.E. hill states, Myanmar etc. It does not >mention E.Ghats. I think in that condition this >might be new addition to the checklist of Andhra >Pradesh. > > Experts please confirm ID > >regards >Pinakin Karve > >-- >Pinakin Karve >-------------------- > >Content-Type: image/jpeg; name="Large 4 line blue.JPG" >Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="Large 4 line blue.JPG" >X-Attachment-Id: f_g27jb94r0 > >Attachment converted: Mammoth:Large 4 line blue.JPG (JPEG/«IC») (0034CB4E) -- Krushnamegh Kunte Post-doctoral Research Fellow FAS Center for Systems Biology Harvard University 52 Oxford St Northwest Lab Room 458.40-3 Cambridge, MA 02138, USA. Ph: (617) 496-0078 Cell: (512) 577-1370 Fax: (617) 495-2196 Email: [email protected] and [email protected] Website: http://www.people.fas.harvard.edu/~kunte/index.htm Google profile: http://www.google.com/profiles/krushnamegh -- Enjoy
