Sahyadri Duffer1111

 Discophora lepida lepida

Malayam Name

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മുളംകാടൻ

Other Common Name

:

Sahyadri Duffer

Order

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Lepidoptera

Super family

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Papilionidea

Family

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Pieridae

Sub Family

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Morphinae

Tribe

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DISTRIBUTION
              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, though similar to those in the female of D. celinde, are on the upperside of the forewing all pale blue, not yellow, and more numerous, larger, and better defined on the upperside of the hindwing. Underside. Male similar to that in male of D. celinde, but a more or less prominent diffuse subterminal band irrorated with lilac scales crosses both forewing and hindwing. Female similar to the female of D. celinde, but much paler.
LARVAL HOST PLANTS
Ochladra travancorica, Dendrocalamum gigantea

LIFE CYCLE


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Write up:Wikipaedia
Images: TNHS/Ifoundbutterflies/Wikimedia Commons

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