Project butterfly Mankulam Division

Zizina otis indica (Murray, 1874)  Malayalam Name      : ചെറു പുൽ നീലി Order  : Lepidoptera Super Family             : Papilionoidae (Butterflies) Family                :  Lycaenidae Sub Family : Polyomatinae   DISTRIBUTION               Indo-Malayan realm. STATUS: Less Common    HABITAT:  HABITS IDENTIFICATION  FEATURES Wing Span:  SIMILAR SPECIES  The lesser grass blue is often misidentified as Zizina labradus, the common grass blue. LARVAL HOST PLANTS The species breeds on many plants of the family Leguminosae including Alysicarpus vaginalis, Desmodium species,Glycine max, Indigofera species, and Mimosa species. LIFE CYCLE MORE IMAGES Male Female Courtesy  Write up:Wikipaedia Images: TNHS കേരള വനം വന്യജീവി വകുപ്പ്   മാങ്കുളം ഡിവിഷൻ

Euripus consimilis  (Westwood, [1851])  ചിത്രാംഗതൻ Malayalam Name  : ചിത്രാംഗതൻ Family  : Nymphalidae Sub-family              : Apaturinae Tribe                      :  Leptociaini Order : Lepidoptera DIST RIBUTION                  South Asia and South East Asia STATUS:    Not common HABITAT They are found in  . HABITS T ts IDENTIFICATION  FEATURES Medium size Black and white butterfly with wingspan70-88 mm.   Male. Upperside: forewing black with the following white streaks and spots: a long streak from base , outwardly broadened and diffuse in interspace 1, a short slender streak in cell with a minute elongate spot below it, a broad, short, very oblique , in the middle broadly interrupted, median band , an oblique short row of slender paired streaks beyond in interspaces 3, 4 and 5, followed by a ...

Mycalesis patnia junonia Butler, 1868 — Malabar Glad-eye Bushbrown Malayalam Name      : പൂങ്കണ്ണി Order  : Lepidoptera Super Family             : Papilionoidae (Butterflies) Family               :  Nympalidae Sub Family : Nymphalinae DIST RIBUTION :    Species found in India and Sri Lanka. The sub species is seen in Western Ghats STATUS:   sub species is endemic to Western Ghats HABITAT  : High elevation Shola grass lands HABITS  IDENTIFICATION  FEATURES:  The wingspan of the butterfly ranges from 40 to 45millimetres.  Upperside: The male has a dark umber-brown ground colour slightly suffused with ochraceous. Forewing with a large median and a much smaller subapical white-centred black ocellus, each with an orange-yellow iris, the upper portion of the iris round the median ocellus very broad, Hindwing uniform, with two very small ful...

Pieris canidia canis Evans, 1912  ചോല വെള്ളാട്ടി Malayalam Name  : ചോല വെള്ളാട്ടി Family  : Pieridae Sub-family              : Pierinae Tribe                      :   Leptociaini Order : Lepidoptera DIST RIBUTION                    Found throughout the Indian subcontinent. STATUS:      It is  a common species HABITAT HABITS IDENTIFICATION  FEATURES It has a small wingspan of 4 to 6 cm.  The male is white to pale cream on its upperside. It is black from the apex to about the middle of the terminal margin. On the latter the black extends for a very short distance triangularly along the veins. There is a round black spot in interspace 3. The hindwing has a subcostal black spot  and a series of four or five terminal black spots that vary in size at the apices of the veins. Underside:...