The present book 'Handbook on Butterflies of Himachal Pradesh" is a part of the above venture. For these studies, the collection of butterflies made in Zoological Survey of India, Solan for the last over three decades was utilized. The localities from where the collections were poorly represented, were surveyed afresh. All efforts have been made to collect as many species as possible from nearly all the districts of Himachal Pradesh. This book, however, ...
On the Lepidopterous Fauna of Andaman and Nicobar group of Islands (India): Family Arctiidae
"The Pyralid moths constitute an important group of insects in the order Lepidoptera, and comprise several species of great economic importance. There are several well established and well known pest-species like yellow stem borer, top borer, shoot borer, stalk borer, white borer, internode borer, root borer, pod & capsule borer, fruit borer, fruit-tree pests, wax-moth, rice moth, Indian meal moth and number of leaf folders and case worms. The pest species, ...
