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...

Eurema brigitta rubella (Wallace, 1867) —  കുഞ്ഞിപ്പാപ്പാത്തി Photo: Anila Manalil Malayalam Name:  കുഞ്ഞിപ്പാപ്പാത്തി Family:Pieridae Sub Family:Coliadinae Order: Lepidoptera (Butterflies and Moth) DISTRIBUTION: STATUS:  HABITAT : HABIT:  IDENTIFICATION FEATURES:  Wet-season form: Male. Upper-side somewhat paler yellow. Fore-wing with the outer marginal black band; the apical edge of costa and the cilia rosy-red. Hind-wing with the black outer band somewhat narrower, macular, the decreasing portions each with a more prolonged inner-tooth, and the yellow ground-colour between each extending to the outer edge. Underside pale yellow, the fore-wing also having a very slightly defined sub-apical inwardly-oblique squamous streak. Fore-wing with the entire costal edge and outer marginal cilia, and also the outer marginal cilia of the hind-wing, rosy-red. Dry-season form: Both sexes much smaller than in intermediate form. Cilia paler. Male. Fore-wing above with the in...

Eurema (Terias) hecabe hecabe (Linnaeus, 1758)-വാക പാപ്പാത്തി  DRY FORM    Photo: Anila Manalil  Malayalam Name:      വാക പാപ്പാത്തി Family: Papilionidae Sub Family: Papilioninae Tribe : Papilionini Order : Lepidoptera (Butterflies and Moth) DISTRIBUTION Species found through out Asia, Africa and Australia. The Sub species hecabe   seen throughout India and Andaman. STATUS Common HABITAT open grass and scrub habitats HABITS    They are found flying close to the ground. Exhibits  seasonal polyphenism . It  has a darker summer morph, triggered by a long day exceeding 13 hours in duration, while the shorter diurnal period of 12 hours or less induces a fairer morph in the post- monsoon  period.   IDENTIFICATION FEATURES:  Small sized yellow butterfly with wingspan  40–50mm. Similar in size with Common Emigrant, but with black Mottled marks. Male :  Underside (ventral surface): yellow, generally a ...

Eurema (Terias) blanda silhetana (Wallace, 1867) — തകര പാപ്പാത്തി Photographer: Pradeep Krishnan Malayalam Name:  മുപ്പൊട്ടൻ മഞ്ഞപ്പാപ്പാത്തി/ തകര പാപ്പാത്തി Family:Pieridae Sub Family:Coliadinae Order: Lepidoptera (Butterflies and Moth) DISTRIBUTION:  South East Asia, India   STATUS: Common HABITAT : S HABIT:  Exhibits  seasonal polyphenism . It  has a darker summer morph, triggered by a long day exceeding 13 hours in duration, while the shorter diurnal period of 12 hours or less induces a fairer morph in the post- monsoon  period.   IDENTIFICATION FEATURES: Wet form: Male. Upper-side lemon-yellow. Fore-wing with the outer marginal black band anteriorly broader than in Sri Lankan specimens of  Eurema hecabe , the posterior end shorter and its inner edge outwardly oblique. Hind-wing with a moderately broad black outer band. Underside. Both wings with more or less defined ordinary markings of wet form. Fore-wing with three marks in the cell, i...

  Eurema (Terias) nilgiriensis (Yata, 1990) — വെമ്പട ശലഭം Malayalam Name:   വെമ്പട ശലഭം Family:Pieridae Sub Family:Coliadinae Order: Lepidoptera (Butterflies and Moth) DISTRIBUTION: Western Ghats  STATUS:  Endemic to Western Ghats HABITAT : HABIT:  IDENTIFICATION FEATURES:  LARVAL HOST PLANT:   Data Deficient MORE IMAGES      കേരള വനം വന്യജീവി വകുപ്പ്   മാങ്കുളം ഡിവിഷൻ