Sahyadri Plain Puffin

Appias (Hiposcritia) indra shiva (Swinhoe, 1885) വെള്ള പഫിൻ



Malayalam Name 

:

വെള്ള പഫിൻ

Family 

:

Pierridae

Sub-family             

:

Pierinae

Tribe                     

: 

Leptociaini

Order

:

Lepidoptera


DISTRIBUTION
              India and Indochina
STATUS:   Not common
HABITAT
n .
HABITS
Tts
IDENTIFICATION  FEATURES
Medium  size Black and white butterfly with wingspan 55-80 mm.  
Wet-season brood: 
Male. Upper-side greyish-white. Fore-wing with the base of costal border grey-black scaled and merging into a black broad apical outer-marginal decreasing band, three or four white spots before the apex, the upper and lower the smallest; a minute black dot is generally present on the lower discocellular veinlet. 
Underside. Fore-wing greyish-white; with the outer black band subapically restricted and narrow, the apical area being pale yellow, the spots of upper-side being slightly indicated, the black discocellular dot also visible. Hind-wing pale yellow, with more or less very slightly-defined brownish-scaled discal and submarginal zigzag fasciae, and a distinct black discocellular dot.
Hindwing with a black outer-marginal narrow band, which is almost macular, and, generally, with a connecting submarginal zigzag series of blackish scales, extending inward from the lower sub-costal to the upper median,
Under side of Hindwing uniformly ochreous-yellow, with slightly apparent blackish scaled submarginal zigzag slender fascia and a similar but less apparent medial fascia; a distinct black dot on the discocellular veinlet.
SIMILAR SPECIES  Spotted Puffin
LARVAL HOST PLANTS
Drypetes oblongifolia and Putranjiva roxburghi  (Putranjivaceae)

LIFE CYCLE


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Sahyadri Plain Puffin

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Write up:Wikipaedia
Images: TNHS

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