Rediscovery of the rare Desert Grizzled Skipper Spialia doris evanida Butler, 1880 (Hesperiidae: Pyrginae) from the Thar Desert, Rajasthan, India

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Shyam Sundar Meena
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9874-5654
Anil Tripathi
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8178-5660
Vijay Kumar Koli
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3264-9253
M. Akram Awan
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3717-6627

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The Desert Grizzled Skipper Spialia doris, a rare butterfly to the Indian subcontinent, prefers an arid and rocky environment.  In this manuscript we report the rediscovery of this species from the Thar Desert, Rajasthan, India after 67 years with a note about its habitat.

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