Project butterfly Mankulam Division

Tanaecia lepidea miyana (Fruhstorfer, 1913) പേഴാളൻ Malayalam Name  :   പേഴാളൻ Family  : Nymphalidae Sub-family              : Limenitidinae Tribe                      :  Leptocircini Order : Lepidoptera DISTRIBUTION:  South and South east Asia STATUS:  Not Common HABITAT:  Forested habitats HABIT:  IDENTIFICATION FEATURES:    Blackish brown  butterfly with marginal grey band  with  with  80–100 mm  wings span. Upperside dark brown, paler in the female, with very obscure black markings of transverse lines across the cells of both forewings and hindwings and an oblique discal fascia on the forewing; an ash-grey continuous band along the termen of both forewings and hindwings, gradually broadening from the apex of the forewing, where it is very narrow, to the tornus of the hindwing, where it covers about one-third of the wing....

Dophla evelina laudabilis Swinhoe, 1890  Male Malayalam Name  : കനിരാജൻ Family  : Nyphalidae Sub-family              : Limetidinae Tribe                      :  Leptociaini Order : Lepidoptera DIST RIBUTION                   The subspecies found in south India STATUS:    HABITAT HABITS IDENTIFICATION  FEATURES Wing Span: 81–113 mm Male upperside somewhat dark metallic green. Forewing: cell with two median sinuous short black transverse lines with a crimson spot between them, two similar lines beyond, one before, one after apex of cell; followed by a dark irregular transverse shading between the veins; apex of wing broadly and termen narrowly edged with an obscure dark shading. Hindwing with a slender black loop in cell; very obscure discal and sub terminal dark macular bands and the anterior third of the wing ...