{"id":26529,"date":"2024-09-12T06:08:16","date_gmt":"2024-09-12T00:38:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=26529"},"modified":"2025-10-04T17:52:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-04T12:22:09","slug":"southern-birdwing-butterfly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/southern-birdwing-butterfly\/","title":{"rendered":"Southern Birdwing butterfly"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About Southern Birdwing butterfly:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is also called <strong>the \u2018Sahyadri Birdwing\u2019<\/strong> and it is India\u2019s second largest butterfly species.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Distribution:<\/strong> It is a large and striking butterfly species found in South Asia, majorly in the <strong>Western Ghats.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It is exceptionally large in size, with wings that exceed the dimensions of smaller birds. This notable wingspan is the reason behind its name, \u201cbirdwing.\u201c<\/li>\n<li>Males typically have black wings with greenish-blue markings, while females have a more extensive pattern with cream-coloured markings.<\/li>\n<li>It is the <strong>state butterfly of Karnataka.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Conservation status<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>IUCN:<\/strong> Least concern<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Key points about Western Ghats<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>It is a <strong>mountain range<\/strong> that covers an area of 160,000 sq Km in a stretch of 1,600 Km parallel to the <strong>western coast of the Indian peninsula.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It traverses through the states of Gujarat, Maharashtra, Goa, Karnataka, Kerala and Tamil Nadu.<\/li>\n<li>It is a <a href=\"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/upsc-exam\/unesco-world-heritage-sites-in-india\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>UNESCO World Heritage Site<\/strong><\/a> and is one of the <strong>36 <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/upsc-exam\/biodiversity\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>biodiversity<\/strong><\/a><strong> hotspots<\/strong> in the world.<\/li>\n<li>These Ghats are home to high mountain forests, which moderate the tropical climate of the region and present one of the best examples of the monsoon system on the planet.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1: What are Biodiversity Heritage Sites?<\/h3>\n<p>These are areas that are unique, ecologically fragile ecosystems having rich biodiversity consisting of any one or more of the components such as;species richness, high endemism, presence of rare endemic and threatened species.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/sci-tech\/energy-and-environment\/indias-second-largest-butterfly-species-found-in-madurai\/article68630985.ece\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">India\u2019s second largest butterfly species found in Madurai<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Southern Birdwing butterfly is also called the \u2018Sahyadri Birdwing\u2019 and it is India\u2019s second largest butterfly species.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":26530,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-26529","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\/26529","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=26529"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26529\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26530"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}