{"id":25592,"date":"2024-08-04T06:02:20","date_gmt":"2024-08-04T00:32:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=25592"},"modified":"2025-04-07T19:06:05","modified_gmt":"2025-04-07T13:36:05","slug":"four-ringed-butterfly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/four-ringed-butterfly\/","title":{"rendered":"Four-ringed butterfly"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About Four-ringed butterfly:\u00a0<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>The great four-ring (Ypthima cantliei), a <strong>species of Satyrinae butterfly.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It was photographed during a survey to document the butterfly diversity in the <strong>Miao range of the Namdapha National Park <\/strong>during 2018-19.<\/li>\n<li>It was identified based on general morphological patterns and habitat.<\/li>\n<li>It was last reported in 1957 from (eastern) Assam\u2019s Margherita.<\/li>\n<li>It is considered a rich genus of the family Nymphalidae which has some 6,000 species of butterflies. Of the <strong>35 Ypthima species<\/strong> recorded in India, 23 have been reported from <strong>the northeast.<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>The <strong>highest Ypthima diversity<\/strong> is in China, particularly in the <strong>Yunnan and Sichuan<\/strong> provinces. The diversity is also vast in Nepal, Bhutan, and Myanmar apart from the northeastern part of India.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><strong>Key facts about the Namdapha National Park<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is located in the state of <strong>Arunachal Pradesh.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It is flanked by the <strong>Patkai hills to the south<\/strong> and <strong>south-east<\/strong> and by the Himalaya in the north.<\/li>\n<li>It is located between the <strong>Dapha bum range of the Mishmi Hills<\/strong> and the Patkai range.The region is a part of both the <strong>Palearctic and Indo-Malayan biogeographic<\/strong> areas.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Namdapha <\/strong>is the name of a <strong>river<\/strong> which originates from Daphabum and meets the Noa-Dehing river.<\/li>\n<li>This river flows right across in a North-South direction of the National Park and hence the name Namdapha has been given.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Fauna:<\/strong> It is only park in the World to have the <strong>four Feline species<\/strong> of big cat namely the <strong>Tiger <\/strong>(Panthera Tigris), <strong>Leopard<\/strong> (Panthera Pardus), <strong>Snow Leopard<\/strong> (Panthera Uncia) and <strong>Clouded Leopard<\/strong> (Neofelis Nebulosa) and numbers of Lesser cats.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Flora:<\/strong> Evergreen Forests, Moist deciduous forests, sub-tropical forests, Temperate Forests and Alpine.\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1: What is Pollination?<\/h3>\n<p>It is the act of transferring pollen grains from the male anther of a flower to the female stigma. The goal of every living organism, including plants, is to create offspring for the next generation.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/sci-tech\/energy-and-environment\/four-ringed-butterfly-resurfaces-in-india\/article68480656.ece#:~:text=The%20great%20four%2Dring%20has,species%20of%20the%20genus%20Ypthima\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>Four-ringed butterfly resurfaces in India<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Four-ringed butterfly, a species of Satyrinae butterfly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":25593,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-25592","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25592","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25592"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25592\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25593"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}