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Four-Ringed Butterfly: Ypthima Cantliei
Context:
Recently, a four-ringed butterfly, Ypthima cantliei, has resurfaced in the Namdapha National Park after 61 years.
Overview of Ypthima cantlie:
- The butterfly was recorded in 2018 at Namdapha National Park, located in Arunachal Pradesh, bordering Myanmar.
- Arunachal Pradesh is home to over 600 of India’s 1,327 recorded butterfly species.
- Namdapha National Park is India’s easternmost tiger reserve.
- The great four-ring was last reported in 1957 from Margherita, Assam.
- Ypthima is a genus in the Nymphalidae family, with around 6,000 species of butterflies. Notably diverse in China, Nepal, Bhutan, Myanmar, and northeastern India.
- A butterfly belonging to the Satyrinae subfamily.
- The great four-ring features dull brown-grey wings with three yellow-ringed eye spots on the hind wing and a large bi-pupilled apical ocellus on the forewing.