Paintbrush swift butterfly

October 24, 2023

A species of butterfly that is rare in the western Himalayas, the paintbrush swift butterfly has been photographed and documented for the first time in Himachal Pradesh’s Chamba district.
The State supports around 430 butterfly species or about 25% of the total number of butterfly species found in India.
The paintbrush swift (Baoris farri), a butterfly species of the Hesperiidae family, was sighted and photographed in the second week of October.
It was first described by lepidopterist Frederic Moore, more than 145 years ago, from the eastern Himalayas.
Paintbrush swift’s habitat distribution is common in northeast, central and south India, and rare in Uttarakhand.