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New ‘silverline’ butterflies
January 6 , 2024
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- A new species of Silverline butterfly Cigaritis meghamalaiensis has been discovered at the Meghamalai hills.
- The species is named after Meghamalai region.
- It has become the first butterfly species to be described from the Western Ghats in 33 years.
- A hitherto-unreported taxon was last described from the Western Ghats in 1990 – Eurema (Terias) nilgiriensis (Yata, 1990), or the Sahyadri Grass Yellow (Nilgiri grass yellow).
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