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 (Convolvul...

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 co...

Pelopidas subochracea subochracea (Moore, 1878)  Mal ayalam Name : ചോല ശരശലഭം Order : Lepidopte ra Family : Hesperiidae Sub-family : Hesperiinae Sub species :  Pelopidas subochracea subochracea  common names : Bengal Large Branded Swift DISTRIBUTION Indo-Malayan Realm. Sub species found in India STATUS: Common HABITAT:  HABITS IDENTIFICATION  FEATURES Upperside glossy luteous olive-brown; cilia yellowish-cinereous. Male. Forewing with two pale semi-diaphanous spots at end of the cell, three contiguous spots obliquely before the apex, three upper discal spots, below which is a narrow white oblique streak or brand; hindwing with three small yellow upper discal spots, the two lowest small. Female. Forewing with a lower or fourth discal spot, and a small dot below the third spot; the spots angled outward: hindwing as in male. Underside greenish-ochreous, brown on hind border of forewing and anal lobe; marginal line brown and prominent: forewing with the lower spot...

Pelopidas conjuncta narooa (Moore, 1878) Mal ayalam Name : ചോല ശരശലഭം Order : Lepidopte ra Family : Hesperiidae Sub-family : Hesperiinae Sub species : Pelopidas conjuncta narooa   common names : Sahyadri Conjoined Swift DISTRIBUTION Indo-Malayan Realm. Sub species found in South India and Sri Lanka STATUS: Common HABITAT:  HABITS IDENTIFICATION  FEATURES Male. Upperside dark olive-brown. Forewing with nine semi-diaphanous yellowish-white spots, two in the cell towards its end, one above the other, well separated, touching the margins of the cell; three small sub-apical spots of equal size, in an outwardly oblique well-curved line, the others in an inwardly oblique discal series, one in each interspace, the spot near the base of the first median interspace the largest of the series, its lower end produced outwards, the spot above it about half its size, with its outer lower end also somewhat produced, the upper small spot about the size of the sub-apical spots, a spot a...