Indian oakleaf

Orange oakleaf
Upperside
Underside
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Unrecognized taxon (fix): Kallima
Species:
Template:Taxonomy/KallimaK. inachus
Binomial name
Kallima inachus
(Doyère, 1840)[1]

The Orange oakleaf, Indian oakleaf or Dead leaf (Kallima inachus), is a nymphalid butterfly found in Tropical Asia from the Republic of India to Japan. With wings closed, it closely resembles a dry leaf with dark veins and is a commonly cited example of camouflage.

Wet-season form

Smaller than the dry-season form, but very similar to it. The colours are richer and darker, and the orange discal band more broadly bordered with black on the inner side. On the underside, some of the specimens from areas of heavy rainfall have the ground colour very dark ochraceous brown.

Distribution

The orange oakleaf is found in India, Nepal, Bhutan, Bangladesh, and Myanmar, down to Tenasserim Hills.[2] In Southeast Asia it occurs in southern China, Thailand, Laos, Taiwan, and Vietnam.[3] It has also been recorded from Pakistan in 2000.

In Modern India, the butterfly flies in the Himalayas at low elevations, from the disputed territories of Indianized Jammu and Kashmir, through Garhwal and Kumaon to West Bengal, Sikkim, Southern Tibet, and other states of the northeast. It is also found in central and peninsular India; it flies in Madhya Pradesh, Jharkhand, Chhattisgarh, Orissa and Andhra Pradesh; i.e. along the central Indian highlands to Pachmarhi and Amarkantak, the Western Ghats south to Bhimashankar, and in the Eastern Ghats north of the river Godavari.[2][4][5]

The status of the butterfly in the Republic of India is that of "National" and is "not rare",[2] while in China, the butterfly is considered "rare".[6]

See also

  • Kallima paralekta

References

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  1. ↑ Template:LepIndex Retrieved April 20, 2018.
  2. 1 2 3 Cite error: The named reference Kehimkar2009 was used but no text was provided for refs named (see the help page).
  3. ↑ Phung My Trung & Nguyen Thi Lien Thuong. "The Flying Wonder, Orange Oakleaf butterfly Kallima inachus". Vietnam Forest Creatures. Archived from the original on 18 October 2014. Retrieved 15 June 2013.
  4. ↑ Cite error: The named reference Bingham (1905) Vol I was used but no text was provided for refs named (see the help page).
  5. ↑ de Nicéville, Lionel (1886). The Butterflies of India, Burmah and Ceylon (Vol 2). The Calcutta Central Press Company.
  6. ↑ Qin XM, Guan QX, Zeng DL, Qin F, Li HM (August 2012). "Complete mitochondrial genome of Kallima inachus (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae: Nymphalinae): comparison of K. inachus and Argynnis hyperbius". Mitochondrial DNA. 23 (4): 318–320. doi:10.3109/19401736.2012.684093. PMID 22708853. S2CID 33406633.
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