Chocolate Bordered Flitter
- December 4, 2021
- Posted by: OptimizeIAS Team
- Category: DPN Topics
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Chocolate Bordered Flitter
Subject – Environment
Context – Chocolate-bordered Flitter, new butterfly species discovered by chance via photos
Concept –
- This butterfly species was previously unknown in India and was a new species. T
- he new species of butterfly, now named the Chocolate-bordered Flitter, also carries the scientific name Zographetusdzonguensis, after Dzongu in north Sikkim, the place where it was discovered.
- Its closest relatives are Zographetuspangi in Guangdong, and Zographetushainanensis in Hainan, both in southeastern China, close to Hong Kong.
- The physical appearance of the species differ slightly and the internal structures of the males also differ slightly.