Gaurav and others, just yesterday I came across this paper: Bean, A. E. 1968. Occurrence of Spindasis abnormis (Moore), (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae) on the Western Ghats: a revised description, including male genitalia and notes on early development. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society, 65: 618-632.
This has a good bit of information about this species. Harish Gaonkar’ Maharashtra distribution must be from this paper, in which several Maharashtra sightings were reported. With best wishes, Krushnamegh. ------------------------------------------------- Krushnamegh Kunte, PhD 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] Other emails: [email protected], [email protected] Personal website: http://www.people.fas.harvard.edu/~kunte/index.htm Indian Foundation for Butterflies: http://ifoundbutterflies.org/ Google profile: http://www.google.com/profiles/krushnamegh ________________________________ ________________________________ From: Gaurav Agavekar <[email protected]> Reply-To: butterflyindia <[email protected]> Date: Mon, 17 Jan 2011 02:21:51 -0500 To: butterflyindia <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [ButterflyIndia] a note published on Abnormal Silverline kishen, we always keep visiting that place in the hope that we'll get some caterpillars. cheers, On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 1:50 AM, Kishen Das <[email protected]> wrote: Keep visiting that place and I am sure some day you will get the life-cycle. Great job. Kishen On Sun, Jan 16, 2011 at 4:44 AM, Gaurav Agavekar <[email protected]> wrote: hello folks, a note on the sighting of a rare butterfly, Abnormal Silverline Spindasis abnormis, has been published in the January 2011 issue of Parthenos: Lovalekar, R., G. Agavekar and K. Kunte. 2011. Spindasis abnormis, the endemic Abnormal Silverline butterfly of the Western Ghats, southwestern India (Lepidoptera, Lycaenidae). Parthenos, Jan. 2011:13-16. you can download Parthenos here: http://diversityindia.org/Parthenos/ <http://diversityindia.org/Parthenos/> or just the paper here: http://www.people.fas.harvard.edu/~kunte/NaturalHistory.htm <http://www.people.fas.harvard.edu/%7Ekunte/NaturalHistory.htm> cheers, -- Gaurav Agavekar. -- Gaurav Agavekar. -- Enjoy
