Blank Swift Caltoris kumara moorei (Evans, 1926) (Lepidoptera: Hesperiidae) in Dehradun Valley, Uttarakhand, India: a new record for the western Himalaya
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The paper provides details of the record of a butterfly, the Blank Swift Caltoris kumara moorei (Evans, 1926) (Lepidoptera: Hesperiidae), recorded for the first time from Uttarakhand state and the Western Himalaya.
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