Indian Jezebel

Delias eucharis (Drury, 1773)

Malayalam Name     

:

വിലാസിനി

Common Name

:

Common Jezebel

Order 

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Lepidoptera

Super Family            

:

Papilionoidae (Butterflies)

Family              

: 

Pieridae

Sub Family

:

Pierinae

Tribe

:

Scientific Name

:

 Delias eucharis
DISTRIBUTION
Southeast Asia especially in the non-arid regions of India, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Indonesia, Myanmar and Thailand.
STATUS:   Common
HABITAT

The common Jezebel found in a variety of environment including temperate hill forests, tropical rainforests, dry open woodlands, and beach hinterlands. They are generally found all over India, except in the desert tracts, and up to an altitude of 7,000 feet (2,100 m) in the hills.

HABITS
The common Jezebel are nomadic in behaviour.
IDENTIFICATION  FEATURES
Medium size white butter fly with wingspan 85-90 mm.

SIMILAR SPECIES
The painted sawtooth is a Batesian mimic of Delias eucharis, the common Jezebel, The two can be told apart from the shape of the hindwing. The painted sawtooth has a much broader hindwing. The orange-red spots on the margin of the hindwing, in the painted sawtooth, are more squarish in shape whereas in the common Jezebel they are arrowhead shaped. The painted sawtooth also flies faster and inhabits dense forests

 

LARVAL HOST PLANTS

Butea monosperma (Fabaceae), Dendrophthoe falcata, D. glabrescens, Loranthus spp., L. cordifolius, L. longiflorus, Helicanthes elasticus, Scurrula parasitica, Taxillus vestitus (Loranthaceae); Abelmoschus moschatus, Pterospermum acerifolium (Malvaceae); Viscum album (Santalaceae).

LIFE CYCLE



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Indian Jezebel
Indian Jezebel -Nectaring -By Anila Manalil

Indian Jezebel
Indian Jezebel -Nectaring -By Anila Manalil



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Write up:Wikipaedia
Images: TNHS

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