Project butterfly Mankulam Division

    Charaxes solon solon (Fabricius, 1793)  പുളിയില ശലഭം Malayalam Name  : പുളിയില ശലഭം Family  : Nyphalidae Sub-family              : Charaxinae Tribe                      :  Leptociaini Order : Lepidoptera DIST RIBUTION                   Pe STATUS:    No HABITAT The HABITS T ts IDENTIFICATION  FEATURES Large size Black and orange butterfly with wingspan 85-110 mm.     Male. Upperside dark fulvous-red. Forewing with the exterior half purpurescent-blac Female SIMILAR SPECIES    Con LARVAL HOST PLANTS Ziz LIFE CYCLE MORE IMAGES Courtesy  Write up:Wikipaedia Images: TNHS കേരള വനം വന്യജീവി വകുപ്പ്   മാങ്കുളം ഡിവിഷൻ

Charaxes psaphon imna Butler, 1870    ചെമ്പഴകൻ female Malayalam Name  : ചെമ്പഴകൻ Family  : Nyphalidae Sub-family              : Charaxinae Tribe                      :  Leptociaini Order : Lepidoptera DIST RIBUTION                   Pe STATUS:    No HABITAT The HABITS T ts IDENTIFICATION  FEATURES Large size Black and orange butterfly with wingspan 85-110 mm.     Male. Upperside dark fulvous-red. Forewing with the exterior half purpurescent-black, forming a broad marginal band, a discocellular duplex black mark, and some very indistinct slender blackish discoidal streaks. Hlndwing with a very broad apical and marginal band, which sinuously attenuates hindward, and terminates in two small white-marked anal spots; a short sinuous black streak from the costa contiguous to the band. Underside fulvou...

Charaxes schreiber wardii (Moore, 1896) നീല നവാബ്   Malayalam Name  : നീല നവാബ് Family  : Nymphalidae Sub-family              : Charaxinae Tribe                      :  Leptociaini Order : Lepidoptera DIST RIBUTION                   Asia and South East Asia STATUS:    Not common HABITAT They are found in  . HABITS T ts IDENTIFICATION  FEATURES Large size Black  butterfly with wingspan 95-100 mm.       Male has upperside ground colour black, glossed slightly with dull indigo-blue, or, in some specimens, light green at the base of the wings. Forewings and hindwings with a broad white discal bar from interspace 4 in forewing to just below the apex of the median vein in the hindwing, narrowing on the latter wing to a point. This bar has, on the outer side on both forewings and hindwin...

 Charaxes bharata Felder & Felder, [1867] നവാബ് Malayalam Name  : 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 64-85 mm.     Male and female . Upperside black. Forewings and hindwings with a discal broad transverse area from below vein 4 in forewing to vein 2 on hindwing, a moderately large spot in interspace 5 , a minute preapical dot beyond in interspace 6 on forewin g, and a subterminal row of spots with two or three spots beyond them on the tornal angle of the hindwing, pale yellow, sometimes with an ochraceous, sometimes with a greenish ...