Project butterfly Mankulam Division

Eurema laeta laeta (Boisduval, 1836) —  പൊട്ടില്ലാ മഞ്ഞപ്പാപ്പാത്തി Malayalam Name:  പൊട്ടില്ലാ മഞ്ഞപ്പാപ്പാത്തി Family:Pieridae Sub Family:Coliadinae Order: Lepidoptera (Butterflies and Moth) DISTRIBUTION:   India ,  Sri Lanka ,  China ,  Indochina ,  Japan , and onwards to  Australia . STATUS:  Common HABITAT : HABIT: Show Wet and Dry Form IDENTIFICATION FEATURES:   Underside paler yellow, unmarked, except that a very faint indication of marginal dots and a small upper  discocellular  streak on both wings, and a dot above the cell and discal transverse streaks on hind-wing. LARVAL HOST PLANT:   Cassia fistula , Chamaecrista pumila (Fabaceae). MORE IMAGES      Upper side Photo: Anila Manalil Wet Form                            Photo:Pradeep Krishnan, Photo: Bernad M Thampan Wet Form കേരള വനം വന്യജീവി വകുപ്പ്   മാങ്കുളം ഡി...

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...

  Catopsilia pomona pomona (Fabricius, 1775)       കൊന്ന മുത്തി   Malayalam Name           :     കൊന്ന 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...