Project butterfly Mankulam Division

  Rapala iarbus sorya  Malayalam Name      : ചെമ്പൻ മിന്നൻ Common Name ; Indian Red Flash Order  : Lepidoptera Super Family             : Papilionoidae (Butterflies) Family               :  Lycaenidae Sub Family : Theclinae DISTRIBUTION :  The species found distrubted in South  and Southeast Asia and i it is seen across India except in the arid regions of Northwest and Northeast.    . STATUS:   HABITAT  :  HABITS : IDENTIFICATION  FEATURES:    SIMILAR SPECIES :  LARVAL HOST PLANTS Terminalia catappa  (Combretaceae).  Homonoia riparia  (Euphorbiaceae).  Acacia  leucophloea ,  Desmodium dalbergioides ,  Desmodium oojeinense ,  Xylia xylocarpa  (Fabaceae).  Melastoma malabathricum ,  Melastoma polyanthum  (Melastomataceae).  Averrhoa bilimbi  (Oxali...

  Discophora lepida lepida Malayam Name : മുളംകാടൻ Other Common Name : Sahyadri Duffer Order : Lepidoptera Super family : Papilionidea Family : Pieridae Sub Family : Morphinae Tribe : DIST RIBUTION                   Western Ghats STATUS:   common HABITAT Reed brakes, Bamboo area. HABITS IDENTIFICATION  FEATURES                                                                 SIMILAR SPECIES    This species resembles  Discophora celinde , but in the male the ground colour on the upperside is dark velvety brown without any blue reflections; the forewing is crossed pre-apically by three obliquely-placed, comparatively large, pale-blue spots with an ill-defined series of three or four much smaller subterminal spots; in the female the markings, th...

  Colotis vestalis   vestalis  (Butler, 1876)   Malayam Name :   Other Common Name : Sind White Arab Order : Lepidoptera Super family : Papilionidae Family : Pieridae Sub Family : Pierinae Tribe : Teracolini DIST RIBUTION                    Found in India, Pakistan, Iran, Somalia, Ethiopia, Sudan, Kenya and Tanzania STATUS:  common HABITAT HABITS T ts IDENTIFICATION  FEATURES It has a wingspan of 4–5 cm.   SIMILAR SPECIES    LARVAL HOST PLANTS Salvadora persica LIFE CYCLE MORE IMAGES Courtesy  Write up:Wikipaedia Images: TNHS/Ifoundbutterflies/Wikimedia Commons കേരള വനം വന്യജീവി വകുപ്പ്   മാങ്കുളം ഡിവിഷൻ