Endangered
Bhutanitis ludlowi
Bhutanitis ludlowi
Bhutanitis ludlowi, the Ludlow's Bhutan swallowtail, is a butterfly in the family Papilionidae, endemic to Bhutan and recently recorded in India.
The moth or butterfly
Bhutanitis ludlowi is a moth or butterfly in the family Papilionidae (order Lepidoptera).
Range and habitat
Bhutanitis ludlowi, the Ludlow's Bhutan swallowtail, is a butterfly in the family Papilionidae, endemic to Bhutan and recently recorded in India.
Pins are Wikidata “endemic to” fields. Orange dots, when present, are GBIF occurrence tiles — survey bias included.
Diet
The adult is what most collections hold. The larva — the feeding stage — is often undescribed for the rarest names.
Life history follows the order: complete metamorphosis in moths and beetles, nymphs in grasshoppers and bugs. This page does not invent a host plant that no source named.
In crisis
This project represents the first structured effort to generate baseline data on the species' population, distribution, and life history in India. Subsequent support has been provided through the Rapid Action Project grant from the Wildlife Trust of India, that has contributed to threat assessment, capacity building, and continued outreach activities. Bhutanitis ludlowi is currently facing threats from habitat degradation, unsustainable activities, illegal collection and climate change.
The Bhutan Glory Conservation Project is the only known effort to dedicately conserve the endangered Ludlow's Bhutan Glory butterfly.
CITES lists this taxon on Appendix II. Confirm the current appendix on the CITES checklist.
Named moths and butterflies with a high threat category are often known from a small range and a thin series. Host-plant loss leaves little to recount.
Bhutanitis ludlowi is Endangered on this catalog because that is the IUCN category stored on Wikidata. Confirm the official criteria and any later count on iucnredlist.org.
Sources
Written for this catalog from the English Wikipedia article on Bhutanitis ludlowi, Wikidata item Q138115. Family and order context is original field-guide writing about the group, not a copied assessment of this one species. Wikipedia text is CC BY-SA. Not an IUCN assessment. Counts, when quoted, can change — confirm them on the recovery programme and on iucnredlist.org.
