Common Wanderer
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...