Large Salmon Arab


Colotis fausta (Olivier, 1804) പിംഗല വർണ്ണൻ


Malayalam Name 

:

പിംഗല വർണ്ണൻ

Family 

:

Pieridae

Sub-family             

:

Pierinae

Tribe                     

: 

Leptociaini

Order

:

Lepidoptera


DISTRIBUTION
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STATUS:   Not common
HABITAT
They are found in .
HABITS
Tts
IDENTIFICATION  FEATURES
Small size Black and white butterfly with wingspan 40-50 mm.  
The male's upperside has a salmon-pink ground colour. The costa on the forewing is black and thickly overlaid with greyish or pinkish scales; a black spot at apex of cell, which may be large and quadrate or smaller and lunate; termen broadly black, with an enclosed double transverse series of spots of the ground colour  
 Hindwing: more uniform, the veins with terminal black spots; costa broadly pale, fading to white. Underside: pale yellowish white, in many specimens from moist localities suffused with a beautiful rosy flush; the markings in such specimens prominent, in those from dry localities more or less obsolescent.Forewing: discocellular spot as on the upperside, but complete, and not an oval ring; 
Females are dimorphic. 
Form 1: ground colour and markings as in the male; the costa of the hindwing on the upperside concolorous with the rest of the wing; the sex-mark of course absent. 
Form 2. Upperside: ground colour white, often more or less irregularly suffused on parts of the wing with salmon buff; markings similar to those in the male, but very much broader.
SIMILAR SPECIES  
Small Salmon Arab
LARVAL HOST PLANTS
 Capparis spinosa, Maerua cylindrocarpa, Maerua oblongifolia (Capparaceae).

LIFE CYCLE

MORE IMAGES

Female 

Female; White form

Ma;e

Female :White form



Male

Male



Courtesy 
Write up:Wikipaedia
Images: TNHS

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