See The Six Butterfly Species Discovered In The Eastern Himalayas With Golden, Silver, And Blue 'Scales'

See The Six Butterfly Species Discovered In The Eastern Himalayas With Golden, Silver, And Blue 'Scales'

See The Six Butterfly Species Discovered In The Eastern Himalayas With Golden, Silver, And Blue 'Scales' In 2024, a team of expert entomologists — Monsoon Jyoti Gogoi, Rajkamal Goswami, Seena Narayanan Karimbumkara, and Agur Litinalso — explored the picturesque hills and misty mountains of Arunachal Pradesh, which is nestled at the foothills of India’s Eastern Himalayas.  Over the course of seven days, the team hiked through the underexplored region in search of butterflies.  In total, the scientists found 90 different species of butterflies. As they laid out their findings, they soon realized that six of them had never been recorded in that region of India before.  Images via ATREE’s Siang Valley Biodiversity Conservation Programme “The documentation of six previously unrecorded species within a short one-month survey underscores the striking lack of Lepidopteran surveys and conservation attention in the Indian Eastern Himalayas,” the researchers noted in the latest issue of “Ento…