Sahyadri Black Prince

Rohana parisatis atacinus Fruhstorfer, 1913 ചോലക്കറുപ്പൻ

Black Prince

Malayalam Name 

:

ചോലക്കറുപ്പൻ

Family 

:

Nymphalidae

Sub-family             

:

Apaturinae

Tribe                     

: 

Leptociaini

Order

:

Lepidoptera


DISTRIBUTION
               Indo Malayan Realm
STATUS:   Not common
HABITAT
They are found in .
HABITS
Tts
IDENTIFICATION  FEATURES
Male upperside deep velvety black, with one minute snow-white preapical spot on the forewing; the cilia of both forewing and hindwing alternately black and white. Underside dark purplish brown, shaded at base of wings and along costal margin and apex of forewing with dark ferruginous; both forewing and hindwing with two black spots in the discoidal area, followed by an auriform mark and an irregular median band, crossing both wings, of dark brown, markings outwardly obscurely and interruptedly bordered with lilacine; beyond the discal area both wings are shaded transversely with dark brown, succeeded by a subterminal dark line bordered inwardly with purple; forewing with the white preapical spot larger; hindwing with a black white-centred minute subtornal spot. 
SIMILAR SPECIES  Con
LARVAL HOST PLANTS

Celtis philippensis, Celtis timorensis,Celtis tetrandra,Celtis lycodoxylon (Canabaceae Family)

LIFE CYCLE

MORE IMAGES

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Sahyadri Black Prince - Male 

Black Prince
Sahyadri Black Prince- Male - Closed wing
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Male


Male

female


Courtesy 
Write up:Wikipaedia
Images: TNHS

കേരള വനം വന്യജീവി വകുപ്പ്  
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