Dear Kishen I have visited that place for week in and week out without any success but hope is still alive. I am sure one day i can get this rare one again.
Regards On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 4:19 AM, Kunte, Krushnamegh <[email protected]>wrote: > > > 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<http://www.people.fas.harvard.edu/~kunte/NaturalHistory.htm>> > > > cheers, > > > -- > Gaurav Agavekar. > > > > > > > > > > -- > Gaurav Agavekar. > > > > > > -- Enjoy
