Project butterfly Mankulam Division

 Kallima inachus huegeli Malayalam Name      : ഹിമാലയൻ ഓക്കില ശലഭം Order  : Lepidoptera Super Family             : Papilionoidae (Butterflies) Family               :  Nympalidae Sub Family : Nymphalinae DIST RIBUTION :   Tropical Asia STATUS:   Not rare HABITAT  :  HABITS  The butterfly exhibits  polyphenism , i.e. there are specific dry-season and wet-season forms which differ in colouration and size; the wet-season form tends to be smaller. The orange oakleaf is a powerful flier and usually flies in dense forests with good rainfall, amongst undergrowth and along stream beds. It is attracted to tree sap and over-ripe fruit, and is also known to  mud-puddle.  when in danger the orange oakleaf flies erratically, soon dropping down into the foliage and occupying a stationary pose with wings closed, so that the birds are very o...

Kallima horsfieldii  Kollar, [1844]  Malayalam Name : ഓക്കില ശലഭം Order : Lepidopte ra Family : Nymphalidae Sub-family : Nymphalinae Sub species : No subspecies common names : Sahyadri Blue Oakleaf/ South Indian Blue Oakleaf DIST RIBUTION :  India STATUS:   Endemic to Western Ghats HABITAT  :  HABITS IDENTIFICATION  FEATURES:  Males and females similar. The underside appears like a leaf complete with midrib while the upperside is brilliantly coloured.I ndigo blue. Forewing; with a broad, oblique, slightly curved, sinuous-edged, pale blue band, turning to white on the anterior half; the distance measured on the costa of the outer edge of thin band greater than half the length of the wing from the base; its inner margin bordered by short, obliquely-placed, detached linear black markings; apical area beyond the band jet black, with a preapical whites spot; medial hyaline (glass-like) spots, the lower varying in size, in interspaces 2 and 3. Hindwing ...