Rediscovery of white-striped snow flat Tagiades cohaerens Mabille, 1914 (Lepidoptera: Hesperiidae) from Uttarakhand, India

Abstract

In the present paper, we have documented the rediscovery of White-striped Snow Flat Tagiades cohaerens Mabille, 1914 from a hilly state Uttarakhand of India. It was rediscovered from the Skimmer Biodiversity Reserve, Vasant Vihar, Dehradun, Uttarakhand about 70 years after it was documented from northwest Himalaya. This finding is the result of regular field visit and observations carried out in the Skimmer Biodiversity Reserve from October 2018 to November 2019. During such a visit on 06 October 2019, a butterfly was reported basking on a leaf of a shrub at 1000 hr, 644 meters above sea level. It was photographed and later identified as White-striped Snow Flat Tagiades cohaerens. A number of photographs were taken from different angles for the proper identification of the species. This finding is pretty helpful for further study of this species as well as updating the checklist of the butterflies of Uttarakhand.