bhutanitis ludlowi status

[mokky]

Dear maurizio

Actually the journal has not been published yet. I will notice here as soon as possible once it is published.

Maybe within a week or so.

Cheers,
Mokky

[maurizio]

Dear friend,
thank you for kind reply. I will be waiting for your news

Bye

Maurizio

[mokky]

Dear all,

Finally the first comprehensive report on Ludlow's Bhutan Glory (Bhutanitis ludlowi) was published!

The details of this world-famous rare swallowtail are described with many figures in color. Text is in English with Japanese summary. Easy to access for non-Japanese.

Please see the following link;

bsj-t.blogspot.jp/2012/06/our-journal-butterflies-teinopalpus.html

Cheers,
Mokky

Attachments:

[surroundx]

This species has now been found in India.

"The Bhutan Glory Butterfly located in Fakim Wildlife Sanctuary

Lipichem
Kiphire | October 8

In a significant discovery, one of the rarest butterfly species, the Bhutan Glory Butterfly, has been found to inhabit Kiphire district in Nagaland state. The Warden of the Kiphire Wild Life Division spotted specimens of this rare butterfly in the forests of the Fakim Wild Life Sanctuary.

The Bhutan Glory Butterfly also known as Ludlow’s Bhutan Swallowtail (Bhutanitis ludlowi) is a vulnerable specie of butterfly that was originally thought to be endemic to Bhutan but was found by a team or researchers in Eaglenest Wildlife Sanctuary in Arunachal Pradesh, bordering Bhutan."

Read more: www.morungexpress.com/frontpage/122773.html

[hewi]

(Read more: www.morungexpress.com/frontpage/122773.html)

the butterfly which is shown in the link is not ludlowi but lidderdalii !!

Manfred

[Adam Cotton]

Of course Bhutanitis lidderdalii is found in Nagaland, and Hewi is 100% right, the pictured specimen is Bhutanitis lidderdalii and not Bhutanitis ludlowi which will definitely not be present anywhere near there. Nagaland is actually rather a long way from Bhutan and ludlowi will definitely not occur south of the Brahmaputra River.

This is clearly either a misidentification or may well be a deliberate publicity ploy on the part of the wildlife sanctuary.

Amusingly the article also claims that "The hind wings have minor extensions apart from the single larger tail like extension, characteristic of swallowtail butterflies (Family papilionidae). This butterfly belongs to swallowtail family with Papilioninae sub family ...".

The last time I looked Bhutanitis was a genus in tribe Zerynthiini of subfamily Parnassiinae, and not in subfamily Papilioninae at all.

Adam.

[saye]

Odd amount of noise around this...

I also can't watch those videos, are they region blocked?

@ maurizio
What species of Parides is that in your thumbnail? It's lovely.