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Sighting of Libythea myrrha Godart (Lepidoptera: Libytheidae) in Punjab, India


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1 Zoological Survey of India, Northern Regional Centre, 218 Kaulagarh Road, Dehradun-248 195, India
 

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Libytheidae is a small family of butterflies characterized by enormous prolongation of the palpi giving an appearance of a beak in front of head and hence commonly known as the “Beaks”. The members of this family have small and angular fore wings, and reduced fore legs in males but fully developed in females.
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  • Sighting of Libythea myrrha Godart (Lepidoptera: Libytheidae) in Punjab, India

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Narender Sharma
Zoological Survey of India, Northern Regional Centre, 218 Kaulagarh Road, Dehradun-248 195, India
P. Kumar
Zoological Survey of India, Northern Regional Centre, 218 Kaulagarh Road, Dehradun-248 195, India
P. C. Tak
Zoological Survey of India, Northern Regional Centre, 218 Kaulagarh Road, Dehradun-248 195, India

Abstract


Libytheidae is a small family of butterflies characterized by enormous prolongation of the palpi giving an appearance of a beak in front of head and hence commonly known as the “Beaks”. The members of this family have small and angular fore wings, and reduced fore legs in males but fully developed in females.


DOI: https://doi.org/10.26515/rzsi.v113i3.168777