Health & Environment
Rare Philomela Form Of Common Wanderer Butterfly Sighted In Tamil Nadu
The Hindu18h
THE BRIEF
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A rare philomela form of the Common Wanderer butterfly was documented for the first time in Poothurai, Tamil Nadu.
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The sighting was recorded by local butterfly enthusiast Smita Rani Mishra at a unit of the Sri Aurobindo Ashram campus.
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The identification was confirmed by noted lepidopterist Isaac Kehimkar, expanding the known southern range of this butterfly form.