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Geographic Range [top]
Range Description: This species occurs in the southern Philippines, including the Sulu Archipelago (Treadaway 1995) and Sulawesi, including the Kepulauan Banggai Archipelago (Peleng) (Detani 1983, Vane-Wright and De Jong 2003). It is common up to 300 m, though it is found up to 2,800 m in the south of Sikkim, India. There are also records of this species occurring in Maharashtra National Park in Mumbai, India (Raut & Pendharkar 2010), the north-western and eastern Ghats (Rajasekaran et al. 2002, Padhye et al. 2006), Aralam Wildlife Sanctuary, Kerala (Sreekumar and Balakrishnan 2001), and across India more widely (Wynter-Blythe 1957). Kahnal (2006) reports this species occurring even more widely into Nepal (Koshi Tappu Nature Reserve), Sri Lanka and Myanmar. This gives an extent of occurrence well in excess of the threshold 20,000 km2 for threatened species and, given that this species inhabits both secondary and primary forest, the area of occupancy is also certainly far greater than the respective threshold of 2,000 km2.
Countries occurrence:
Native:
India (Kerala, Maharashtra, Orissa); Indonesia (Sulawesi); Myanmar; Nepal; Philippines; Sri Lanka
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Population [top]
Population: This species is locally fairly common. Padhye et al (2006) reported the percentage abundance of the species to be 2.53% in their study area at Tamhini, north-western Ghats, India. Singh (2010) reports an abundance of 0.4% in the Ankua Reserve Forest, Jharkhand, India.
Current Population Trend: Stable
Additional data:
?Population severely fragmented: No
Habitat and Ecology [top]
Habitat and Ecology: This butterfly inhabits both primary and secondary rainforest where it is usually seen flying quite rapidly close to the ground, often along creeks. It visits low flowering bushes and plants like Leea, Blapharis, Alternanthera. The larval food plant is Zizyphus rugosa (Rhamnaceae). It is recorded as persisting in a wide range of habitats including: evergreen forest; scrubland subjected to slash and burn; riparian; grasslands and paddy field with human habitation (Padhaye et al. 2006). It is particularly abundant during the monsoon season. Males commonly imbibe from creek beds and mud puddles during the post-monsoon months, often in quite large numbers. Adults have a rapid, fairly erratic flight. Larvae have been recorded feeding on Ziziphus (Rhamnaceae) (Vane-Wright and De Jong 2003). The species occurs up to an elevation of 600m (Khanal, 2006) and seem to be quite restricted to low elevations (Sreekumar & Balakrishnan, 2001). Seasonally the species is active during the summer, late monsoon, early winter and late winter (Padhye et al, 2006).
Systems: Terrestrial
Threats [top]
Major Threat(s): This species is not under any major threat.
Conservation Actions [top]
Conservation Actions: No species-specific conservation measures are in place or required for this species.
Citation: Muller, C.J. & Tennent, W.J. 2011. Caleta caleta. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2011: e.T161242A5393402. http://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2011-2.RLTS.T161242A5393402.en. Downloaded on 09 March 2016.
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