Sahyadri Plain Puffin
Appias (Hiposcritia) indra shiva (Swinhoe, 1885) വെള്ള പഫിൻ Malayalam Name : വെള്ള പഫിൻ Family : Pierridae Sub-family : Pierinae Tribe : Leptociaini Order : Lepidoptera DIST RIBUTION India and Indochina STATUS: Not common HABITAT n . HABITS T ts IDENTIFICATION FEATURES Medium size Black and white butterfly with wingspan 55-80 mm. Wet-season brood: Male. Upper-side greyish-white. Fore-wing with the base of costal border grey-black scaled and m erging into a black broad apical outer-marginal decreasing band, three or four white spots before the apex, the upper and lower the smallest; a minute black dot is generally present on the lower discocellular veinlet. Underside. Fore-wing greyish-white; with the outer black...