Chocolate-bordered Flitter: Photographer Discovers New Species Of Butterfly In Sikkim

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07-Dec-21

A new species of butterfly was accidentally discovered by a photographer taking pictures of insects in Sikkim.

Sonam Wangchuk Lepcha, from Dzongu in north Sikkim, has been photographing butterflies since 2016, but little did he know that one day he will make a discovery of new species. Wangchuk Lepcha sends the photos he clicks of the butterflies to the National Centre for Biological Sciences (NCBS) in Bengaluru to identify the insects and upload them on the ‘Butterflies of India’ website.

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In 2020, he photographed a yellow butterfly with brown borders, which was later found to be an unknown species
The new species, which has since been named Chocolate-bordered Flitter, has the scientific name Zographetus dzonguensis. It has been named after the place in which it was discovered, Dzongu in north Sikkim.

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