Greetings eveyone,
I have had these references with me for quite a
while now and I thought that it might be a great idea to post them for the
benefit of all members.These are some classic references on Indian
butterflies and they will most certainly help all enthusiasts identify their
photographs as well as prove to be an invalubale reference guide to both
amatuers as well as the seasoned professionals.Included are many classics
ranging from The Taxonomy of Indian Butterflies by W.H. Evans and also the
excellent Lepidoptera Indica Volumes.
Warm regards and many thanks,
Javed Jameer Ahmed
P.S: Most of these works are under public domain so I know that I am NOT
breaching any copyrights.
I tried to email these as attached .PDF documents however the file size is
too large.So what I am going to do is post links which users can visit to
download these books
Links:
Moore's Lepidoptera Indica:
http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography/8763
Evan's The Indentification of Indian Butterflies:
http://www.archive.org/details/TheIdentificationOfIndianButterflies
Fauna of British India C.T Bingham : Volume I :
http://www.archive.org/details/TheFunaOfBritishIndiaButterfliesVolI
Volume II :
http://www.archive.org/details/butterflies02bingiala
Fauna of British India (Second edition on Butterflies) George Talbot:
Volume I : http://www.archive.org/details/FaunaOfBritishIndia.Butterflies1
Volume
II : http://www.archive.org/details/FaunaOfBritishIndia.Butterflies2
G.F.L. Marshall The Butterflies of India,Burmah and Ceylon (Three Volumes) :
http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography/10618
P.P.S: If anyone is unable to download any of these books,please write to me
and I will mail soft copies of these classics impromptu!
Please note that these books follow an older taxonomy and the
classfication of butterflies has since then been worked upon and
changed.Please follow any of the newer butterfly feild guides for aid in
recent nomenclature.Krushnamegh Kunte's excellent "Butterflies of Peninsular
India" along with Harish Goankars classic paper of Indian butterflies will
be of much help.
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Enjoy
