Oriental Mottled Emigrant
Catopsilia pyranthe pyranthe (Linnaeus, 1758) തകര മുത്തി male Malayalam Name: തകര മുത്തി Family: Papilionidae Sub Family: Papilioninae Tribe : Papilionini Order : Lepidoptera (Butterflies and Moth) DISTRIBUTION India to Australia STATUS Common HABITAT Moist Deciduous and Dry Deciduous forests, Common in human habitations. HABITS IDENTIFICATION FEATURES: Medium sized yellow butterfly with wingspan 55–80mm. Similar in size with Common Emigrant, but with black Mottled marks. Male : The underside's ground colour is similar, suffused on the anterior half of the forewing and over the whole surface of the hindwing with a greenish tint that varies to an ochraceous yellow, and, except in the very palest specimens, is evenly irrorated (sprinkled) over the greenish or ochraceous-tinted areas with transverse, short, reddish-brown strigae; both forewings and hindwings with generally an obscure discocel...