Small Salmon Arab
Colotis amata (Fabricius, 1775) - ചെറുപിംഗലൻ Malayalam Name : ചെറുപിംഗലൻ Family : Pieridae Sub-family : Pierinae Tribe : Leptociaini Order : Lepidoptera DIST RIBUTION Asia and Africa STATUS: Not common HABITAT Th HABITS T ts IDENTIFICATION FEATURES Small size Black and white butterfly with wingspan 35-50 mm. The male's upperside has a salmon-pink ground colour. The costa on the forewing is black and thickly overlaid with greyish or pinkish scales; a black spot at apex of cel l, which may be large and quadrate or smaller and lunate; termen broadly black, with an enclosed double transverse series of spots of the ground colour the inner series consists of a large spot in interspace 1, two very small spots in interspaces 2 and 3, one ...