Project butterfly Mankulam Division

Pareronia hippia (Fabricius, 1787)  നാടോടി male Malayalam Name  : നാടോടി Family  : Pieridae Sub-family              : Pierinae Tribe                      :  Leptociaini Order : Lepidoptera DIST RIBUTION                   Peninsular India STATUS:    Not common HABITAT HABITS Tarucus ananda  is associated with  Crematogaster ants IDENTIFICATION  FEATURES Medium size  Blue and Black  butterfly with wingspan 65-85 mm.     Male upperside: ground colour a clear pale blue: ; all the veins defined with black. Forewing: costa broadly, apex and terminal margin very broadly black, this black on the termen narrowed towards the tornus, and traversed by a transverse subterminal series of bluish-white spots that are variable in number;  Hindwing: dorsal and costal margins broadly whit...

Pareronia ceylanica ceylanica (Felder & Felder, 1865) ഇരുളൻ  നാടോടി Malayalam Name  : ഇരുളൻ നാടോടി Family  : Pieridae Sub-family              : Pieri nae Tribe                      :  Leptociaini Order : Lepidoptera DIST RIBUTION            Sri Lanka  and  India . STATUS:    Endemic to Western Ghats and Sri Lanka HABITAT They are found in  . HABITS T ts IDENTIFICATION  FEATURES Medium-sized  butterfly   butterfly with wingspan 65-80 mm.     The dark wanderer resembles  Pareronia valeria  in colour and in the disposition of the markings,  On the underside the terminal black borders are broader and darker, the subterminal series of spots on apex of the forewing and on the hindwing absent or so very thickly overlaid with the dusky brownish black of the terminal margin as to be very i...