Fabriciana kamala

Fabriciana kamala
Fabriciana kamala male in the Valley of Flowers National Park, Uttarakhand, India.
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Nymphalidae
Genus:	Fabriciana
Species:	F. kamala
Binomial name
Fabriciana kamala (Moore), 1857[1]
Synonyms
Argynnis kamala Moore, 1857 Argynnis cnidia C. & R. Felder, [1867]

Fabriciana kamala, the kamala fritillary, is a butterfly of the family Nymphalidae. It has an eastern range in the Palearctic realm – the Himalayas, Tibet, Kashmir and Kashmir - northwest India, Spīn Ghar, Chitral to Kumaon. The species was first described by Frederic Moore in 1857.^[2]

References

1. Moore, F. (1857). A Catalogue of the Lepidopterous Insects in the Museum of the Hon. East-India Company. 1: 1-278, pl. 1-12, 1a, 2a, 3a, 4a, 5a, 6a.
2. Seitz, A., 1912-1927. Die Indo-Australien Tagfalter.. Grossschmetterlinge Erde 9.