Project butterfly Mankulam Division

Junonia orithya ocyale  Butler, 1885   നീല ചുട്ടി Malayalam Name      : നീല ചുട്ടി Order  : Lepidoptera Super Family             : Papilionoidae (Butterflies) Family               :  Nympalidae Sub Family : Limetidinae DIST RIBUTION :  Species found in Afroca. South Asia and South East Asia and Australia. STATUS:  State Butterfly of Jammu& Kasmir HABITAT  e HABITS The adults occur in open areas, often sitting on bare ground. This species has a stiff flap and glide style of flight and maintains a territory, driving away other butterflies that enter it IDENTIFICATION  FEATURES  SIMILAR SPECIES  LARVAL HOST PLANTS LIFE CYCLE Acanthus spp., Barleria spp., B. mysorensis, Hygrophila auriculata, Justicia micrantha, J. neesii, J. procumbens, Lepidagathis keralensis, Nelsonia canescens, Ruellia tuberosa (Acanthaceae), Ipomoea batatas (Convolvulaceae). Mimosa pudica (Fabaceae), Plectranthus scandens (Lamaiaceae) MORE IMAGES Male Male Male Female female Courtesy  Write up:Wikipaedia Images: T

Abisara bifasciata  Moore, 1877   ഇരുവരയൻ ആട്ടക്കാരൻ Malayalam Name  : ഇരുവരയൻ ആട്ടക്കാരൻ Family  : Riodinidae Sub-family              : Nemeoblinae Tribe                      :  Leptociaini Order : Lepidoptera DIST RIBUTION                   Peninsular India STATUS:    Not common HABITAT , HABITS IDENTIFICATION  FEATURES Medim size Brown butterfly with wingspan 45-50 mm.   Male .   Upperside rich ferruginous-brown. Forewing darker brown externally; with an indistinct small subapical black spot with white pupil; a very large prominent lower black ocellus, with large white pupil, broadly surrounded externally with bright ferruginous-red, which latter colour forms an irregular discal patch extending from the posterior margin and is anteriorly prolonged in front of the subapical spot to near the costa.   Hindwing with four anteriorly decreasing moderately small black ocelli with white pupils and darker ferruginous-red outer rings. Cilia dark cinereous. Underside paler ferruginous-brown, m

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