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Sahyadri Blue Nawab

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Charaxes schreiber wardii (Moore, 1896) നീല നവാബ്   Malayalam Name  : നീല നവാബ് Family  : Nymphalidae Sub-family              : Charaxinae Tribe                      :  Leptociaini Order : Lepidoptera DIST RIBUTION                   Asia and South East Asia STATUS:    Not common HABITAT They are found in  . HABITS T ts IDENTIFICATION  FEATURES Large size Black  butterfly with wingspan 95-100 mm.       Male has upperside ground colour black, glossed slightly with dull indigo-blue, or, in some specimens, light green at the base of the wings. Forewings and hindwings with a broad white discal bar from interspace 4 in forewing to just below the apex of the median vein in the hindwing, narrowing on the latter wing to a point. This bar has, on the outer side on both forewings and hindwin...