The Palmking butterfly, a variety rarely found in India, has been sighted at the Shenduruny wildlife sanctuary by a group of lepidopterists in the Western Ghats Butterfly India Meet during the first week of June. The meet was jointly organized by the nature groups Warblers and Waders and the Butterfly India Group. The male butterfly was sighted in the morning of June 2 in the Kattilappara area of the sanctuary and was seen resting on a marshy patch of land full of reeds.
"This is the third sighting of he Palmking in India. It was in the year 2000 that this butterfly was seen at Palode by B.V.Premkrishnan, member of the Warblers and Waders. Then it was sighted at Shenduruny in 2002. All these sightings were of a male butterfly. It is very difficult to spot this shy butterfly", he said. The palmking is endemic to Southeast Asia and breeds in palm trees.
(The Hindu 14th June 2007)
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