Callerebia scanda

Callerebia scanda, the pallid argus, is a brown (Satyrinae) butterfly that is found in the Himalayas.[1][2]

Pallid argus
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Nymphalidae
Genus: Callerebia
Species:
C. scanda
Binomial name
Callerebia scanda
Kollar, 1844

Range

The butterfly is found in Afghanistan,[1] and the Himalayas from Safed Koh, Astor, Chilas, Gilgit, Chitral, Kashmir and Kulu eastwards across to Sikkim.[3][4]

Status

As per William Harry Evans, it is common from Chitral to Sikkim, and not rare westwards.[3]

gollark: I said it doesn't have zero velocity.
gollark: Why?
gollark: If you go through a doorway moving rapidly you will leave it still moving rapidly. Physics does not distinguish between this case and the doorway going toward you.
gollark: It doesn't. Relative to the portal the cube has substantial velocity.
gollark: It would come out on the other side with significant velocity relative to the top of the hole.

See also

References
  1. "Callerebia Butler, 1867" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
  2. LepIndex shows this taxon as Satyrus swaha.[Beccaloni, G.; Scoble, M.; Kitching, I.; Simonsen, T.; Robinson, G.; Pitkin, B.; Hine, A.; Lyal, C., eds. (2003). "Satyrus swaha". The Global Lepidoptera Names Index. Natural History Museum. ] LepIndex considers the genus Aulocera Butler, 1867; Ent. mon. Mag. 4: 121, TS: Satyrus brahminus Blanchard to be a junior subjective synonym of Satyrus Latreille 1810 Cons. gén. Anim. Crust. Arach. Ins.: 355, 440, TS: Papilio actaea Linnaeus.[Beccaloni, G.; Scoble, M.; Kitching, I.; Simonsen, T.; Robinson, G.; Pitkin, B.; Hine, A.; Lyal, C., eds. (2003). "Satyrus". The Global Lepidoptera Names Index. Natural History Museum.
  3. Evans, W.H. (1932). The Identification of Indian Butterflies (2nd ed.). Mumbai, India: Bombay Natural History Society. p. 116, ser no D11.3.
  4. Haribal, Meena (1992). The Butterflies of Sikkim Himalaya and Their Natural History. Gangtok, Sikkim, India: Sikkim Nature Conservation Foundation. p. 149.
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