বাদুলিপাখিৰ পখিলা

বাদুলিপাখিৰ পখিলা (Common Batwing, বৈজ্ঞানিক নাম- Atrophaneura varuna) ভাৰতত দেখা পোৱা চাতকনেজীয়া পখিলাসমূহৰ ভিতৰত এটা অন্যতম পখিলাৰ প্ৰজাতি৷ ই Atrophaneura গোত্ৰৰ অন্তৰ্ভুক্ত৷

বিৱৰণ

• Wingspan - 88 to 136mm.
• Male: Tailless. Above, the butterfly is bluish-black and unmarked.

It has a scent patch in a rounded black-brown dorsal fold. When the fold is opened, the white lower half of the scent patch can be seen.

• The abdomen has white stripes. The head of the butterfly is rose-coloured.
• Female: Tailless. Above, the butterfly is grey-brown. It has dark stripes in between the veins. It has a large pale patch below vein 2 on the upper forewing.^১

টেক্স'নমি

বাদুলিপাখিৰ পখিলাৰ দুটা উপ-প্ৰজাতি দেখিবলৈ পোৱা যায়৷ এই দুটা হৈছে-

• A. varuna astorion (Westwood) 1842 is found from Kumaon to Tavoy.
• A. varuna varuna (White) is found from Mergui to southern ম্যানমাৰ and is rare.

বিতৰণ

পূব নেপাল, উত্তৰ ভাৰত, ম্যানমাৰ,থাইলেণ্ড, উত্তৰ লাউচ, উত্তৰ ভিয়েটনাম আৰু মালয়েছিয়া আদি দেশত এই পখিলাবিধ দেখা পোৱা যায়৷

বাসস্থান

The Common Batwing occurs from the Terai up to the altitude of 7000 feet.

আচৰণ

The Common Batwing is a butterfly of hot, low altitude jungles. It has a slow and graceful flight and can be seen cruising along river valleys and high over stream-beds. Both sexes frequent flowers, Lantana being a preferred species. It has a disagreeable smell.

পোষক উদ্ভিদ

• Family Aristolochiaceae.
  • Aristolochia kaempferi.

তথ্যসূত্ৰ

• Collins, N.M. & Morris, M.G. (1985) Threatened Swallowtail Butterflies of the World. IUCN. ISBN 2-88032-603-6
• Evans, W.H. (1932) The Identification of Indian Butterflies. (2nd Ed), Bombay Natural History Society, Mumbai, India
• Haribal, Meena (1994) Butterflies of Sikkim Himalaya and their Natural History.
• Wynter-Blyth, M.A. (1957) Butterflies of the Indian Region, Bombay Natural History Society, Mumbai, India.