Project butterfly Mankulam Division

  Charaxes agrarius  Swinhoe, [1887]  ചുട്ടി നവാബ് Malayalam Name  : ചുട്ടി നവാബ് Family  : Nymphalidae Sub-family              : Charaxinae Tribe                      :  Leptociaini Order : Lepidoptera DIST RIBUTION                   Asia STATUS:    Not common HABITAT They are found in  . HABITS T ts IDENTIFICATION  FEATURES Large size Black  butterfly with wingspan 95-100 mm.     Male and female: Both wings with the yellow discal band uniformly narrower, the outer edge of the band more irregular, undulated. Forewing with a large quadrate lower submarginal spot and two small superposed apical spots. Hindwing with yellowish-white rounded submarginal spots, the upper minute, the lower three large and dento-lunate; marginal ochreous lunules not present in the male, very indistinct in female, the lower bluish-grey streaks only present in male. Underside similar to  Polyura athamas , but paler. SIMILAR SPECIES    resemblance to the  Common Nawab  ( Polyura athamas ) LARVAL HOST PLANTS Acac

  Symphaedra nais  (Forster, 1771) അഗ്നിവർണ്ണൻ Malayalam Name  : അഗ്നിവർണ്ണൻ Family  : Nyphalidae Sub-family              : Limetidnae Tribe                      :  Leptociaini Order : Lepidoptera DIST RIBUTION                 South Asia STATUS:    No HABITAT Moist Deciduous Forests HABITS T ts IDENTIFICATION  FEATURES The male and the female both have tawny-yellow uppersides. The forewing has a traverse black line below apex cell and an oval spot beyond encircling a small yellow spot, a broad short oblique discal bar and an angulated postdiscal lunular band the costa narrowly and the termen shaded with black. Hindwing: a comparatively large triangular patch below the middle of the costa, a postdiscal evenly curved series of spots and a broad band along the termen black. Underside dark ochraceous red. Forewing: the base shaded with fuscous black, two spots at base of cell and a transverse line beyond crimson pink, edged with black: a very broad oblique discal band, angulated downwards

  Byblia ilithyia   ജോക്കർ Malayalam Name  : ജോക്കർ Family  : Nymphalidae Sub-family              : Biblidinae Tribe                      :  Leptociaini Order : Lepidoptera DIST RIBUTION                   Africa and Asia STATUS:    Not common HABITAT HABITS T ts IDENTIFICATION  FEATURES Small size Black and white butterfly with wingspan50-55 mm.   Male has the upperwings of a deep rich orange. The forewing has the costa broadly black until nearly the apex. The cell has three narrow short black bands,  A postdiscal broad transverse black band from dorsum to vein 4, with the portions of the veins beyond it defined in black. Underside paler duller orange. Forewing: black markings as on the upperside, but the cell and upper discal markings obscurely margined on the inner side by white; Female similar, with similar markings, but on the upperside the ground colour is paler, the black markings narrower.   SIMILAR SPECIES    LARVAL HOST PLANTS Tragia involucrata, T. plukenetii (Euphorbiaceae).

Ixias marianne   (Cramer, [1779])  വെൺ ചെഞ്ചിറകൻ Malayalam Name  : വെൺ ചെഞ്ചിറകൻ Family  : Pieridae Sub-family              : Pierinae Tribe                      :  Leptociaini Order : Lepidoptera DIST RIBUTION                  South Asia and South EastAsia STATUS:    Not common HABITAT  It is common in dry deciduous forests, scrub and fallow lands and found throughout the year. HABITS The characteristics of this species vary according to the season in which the  eggs  are laid IDENTIFICATION  FEATURES Small to medium size Yellow and white butterfly with wingspan 50-70 mm.     The species wingspan is between 50 and 55 mm. Wet-season brood The male has chalky-white wings with the apical half of the forewing and terminal margin of the hindwing broadly black. There is a broad, rich, orange patch obliquely across the black area extended to the upper apex of the forewing.  The underside of the wing is a rich sulphur-yellow and is covered with reddish brown, short, transverse striations and