Anil Kumar Jena, Ritesh Suvankar Sahoo, Prasad Kumar Dash and Prakash Chandra Gogineni

The present research reports the occurrence of new state records and range extension of three species of butterflies: Danaus melanippus Cramer, 1777 (White Tiger), Mycalesis anaxias Evans, 1920 (White-bar Bushbrown) and Rohana parisatis Westwood, 1850 (Black Prince) as new distributional records for the state of Odisha, India. All three new records are based on photographic evidence and the representative images can be considered as vouchers. Their distribution and ecology have been presented and conservation strategies have been recommended for this newly recorded lepidopteran fauna of Odisha.

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