Congratulations!!
On Tue, 9 Apr, 2024, 21:36 Ananya Mondal, <ananyanutritionist(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
Hi all
It is a joyous moment for us to inform you that the Wiki Loves Butterfly
(WLB) team has become a witness of the first record of *Neptis philyra*
butterfly from India. In India, a total number of 26 species of *Neptis* were
recorded previously. Four members of the WLB team – Atanu Bose
<https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Atanu_Bose_Photography>, Mahesh
Baruah <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:MaheshBaruahwildlife>, Abhishek
Dutta Chaudhury
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Abhishek_Dutta_wildlife>and Anitava
Roy <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Anitava_Roy>, captured
photographs of *Neptis philyra* (Long-streak Sailor) at the Tale Valley
Wildlife Sanctuary
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talle_Valley_Wildlife_Sanctuary> in the Lower
Subansiri district
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lower_Subansiri_district?wprov=wppw2>of Arunachal
Pradesh <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arunachal_Pradesh> in the month of
June 2023. The species was later identified by Tarun Karmakar
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Karmakar_Tarun>, an expert
associated with our team, from the photographs. The first ever record of
this species in India has been published as a scholarly article
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q125371386> in the scientific journal named
Tropical Lepidoptera Research <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q21385963>on
5 April 2024.
Diff link:
https://diff.wikimedia.org/2024/04/08/first-indian-record-of-the-neptis-phi…
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