Sahyadri Yellowjack Sailer
Lasippa viraja kanara (Evans, 1924) മഞ്ഞ പോന്തചുറ്റൻ Malayalam Name : മഞ്ഞ പോന്തചുറ്റൻ Order : Lepidoptera Super Family : Papilionoidae (Butterflies) Family : Nympalidae Sub Family : Limetidinae DIST RIBUTION : Species found in South Asia and the sub species kanara found in South India STATUS: Pe HABITAT : Moist decidous forests HABITS IDENTIFICATION FEATURES Males and females upperside black; markings orange yellow. Forewing: discoidal streak very broad and long, descending a little below vein 4; a short broad band sloping obliquely outwards from middle of dorsum to beyond vein 3, another short broad and somewhat clavate (club-shaped) band sloping obliquely outwards from apical third of costa to below vein 5; beyond these, a subterminal slender line. Hindwing: a subbasal, transverse, very broad, somewhat paler yell...