Project butterfly Mankulam Division

Cepora nerissa phryne (Fabricius, 1775)  നാട്ടു പാത്ത Common Gull -Side View - Anila Manalil Malayalam Name  : നാട്ടു പാത്ത Family  : Pieridae Sub-family              : Pieri nae Tribe                      :  Leptociaini Order : Lepidoptera DIST RIBUTION                  Pe STATUS:    Not common HABITAT They are found in  . HABITS T ts IDENTIFICATION  FEATURES Small size Black and white butterfly with wingspan 25-30 mm.   Wet-season brood Male upperside: white, a greyish-blue shade at base of the wings and along the veins, due to the dark markings on the underside that show through.  Forewing: veins black; apex and termen black, the inner margin of that colour extended in an irregular curve from middle of costa to base of terminal third of vein 4, thence continued obliquely outwards to the torn...

Cepora nadina remba (Moore, [1858]) —  കാട്ടു പാത്ത Malayalam Name  : കാട്ടു പാത്ത Family  : Pieridae Sub-family              : Pieri nae Tribe                      :  Leptociaini Order : Lepidoptera DIST RIBUTION                   South Asia and South East Asian STATUS:    Not common HABITAT   . HABITS Mud puddles, Both Wet and Dry season forms IDENTIFICATION  FEATURES Small to Medium size  butterfly with wingspan 55-65 mm.   Wet-season brood Male has the upperside ground colour white.   Forewing has the basal half of costal margin suffused with greenish yellow and irrorated (sprinkled) sparsely with black scales; apex from the middle of the costa and termen black , the inner margin of the black arched and acutely produced inwards along the veins, the black on the termen narrowed posteri...