Lepidoptera:

Abstract

The Lepidoteran fauna of the region appears to be very rich. This report deals only with the family Papilionidae. The material comprises 21 species and subspecies distributed over 5 genera under three tribes, of which Dabasa g. gyas (Westwood) (rare) is a new record for Arurunachal Pradesh, while Graphium (G.) bathycles chiron (Wallace). G. (G.) doson axion (C. & R. Felder), G. (Pathysa) macareus Indicus (Rothschild), Papilio e. epycides Hewitson (rare), P. paradpxa telearchus Hewitson (rare), P. r. rhetenor Westwood, P. paris decorosa Fruhstorfer, Parides (Atrophaneura) poll a (de Niceville) (very rare), P. (A) philoxenus polyeuctes (Doubleday) and P. (A) aidoneus (Doubleday) (rare) are new records for the Tirap district. -Other species and subspecies, incorporated in this paper, are either common or not rare in status except ,_ Parides (Atrophaneura) dasarada barata (Rothschild), which is considered as rare by Evans (1932). Betts (1950) reported 25 papilionid species ,and subspecies from A~achal Pradesh. Later, Varshney and Chanda (1971) and Arora and Mondai (1981) also studied the material from this area. In the present paper, the author records for the first time 11 more species and sub .. species either from Tirap district or Arunachal Pradesh as a whole.