NACADUBA SINHALA RAMASWAMII SADASIVAN

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• The discovery of the species Nacaduba sinhala ramaswamii Sadasivan, 2021 in the Agasthyamalais in the Western Ghats a decade ago has now found place in the Journal of Threatened Taxa.
  
  
• The new taxon of Lycaenid butterflies belongs to the Nacaduba genus.
  
  
• Line Blues are small butterflies belonging to the subfamily Lycaenidae and their distribution ranges from India and Sri Lanka to the whole of south-eastern Asia, Australia and Samoa.
  
  
• It is the first time that a butterfly species was discovered by an all-Indian research team from the Western Ghats.