Project butterfly Mankulam Division

  Colotis vestalis   vestalis  (Butler, 1876)   Malayam Name :   Other Common Name : Sind White Arab Order : Lepidoptera Super family : Papilionidae Family : Pieridae Sub Family : Pierinae Tribe : Teracolini DIST RIBUTION                    Found in India, Pakistan, Iran, Somalia, Ethiopia, Sudan, Kenya and Tanzania STATUS:  common HABITAT HABITS T ts IDENTIFICATION  FEATURES It has a wingspan of 4–5 cm.   SIMILAR SPECIES    LARVAL HOST PLANTS Salvadora persica LIFE CYCLE MORE IMAGES Courtesy  Write up:Wikipaedia Images: TNHS/Ifoundbutterflies/Wikimedia Commons കേരള വനം വന്യജീവി വകുപ്പ്   മാങ്കുളം ഡിവിഷൻ

Ixias marianne   (Cramer, [1779])  വെൺ ചെഞ്ചിറകൻ Malayalam Name  : വെൺ ചെഞ്ചിറകൻ Family  : Pieridae Sub-family              : Pierinae Tribe                      :  Leptociaini Order : Lepidoptera DIST RIBUTION                  South Asia and South EastAsia STATUS:    Not common HABITAT  It is common in dry deciduous forests, scrub and fallow lands and found throughout the year. HABITS The characteristics of this species vary according to the season in which the  eggs  are laid IDENTIFICATION  FEATURES Small to medium size Yellow and white butterfly with wingspan 50-70 mm.     The species wingspan is between 50 and 55 mm. Wet-season brood The male has chalky-white wings with the apical half of the forewing and terminal margin of the hindwing broadly black. There is a bro...

Colotis fausta   (Olivier, 1804)  പിംഗല വർണ്ണൻ Malayalam Name  : പിംഗല വർണ്ണൻ Family  : Pieridae Sub-family              : Pierinae Tribe                      :  Leptociaini Order : Lepidoptera DIST RIBUTION                   Pe STATUS:    Not common HABITAT They are found in  . HABITS T ts IDENTIFICATION  FEATURES Small size Black and white butterfly with wingspan 40-50 mm.     The male's upperside has a salmon-pink ground colour. The costa on the forewing is black and thickly overlaid with greyish or pinkish scales;  a black spot at apex of cel l, which may be large and quadrate or smaller and lunate; termen broadly black, with an enclosed double transverse series of spots of the ground colour     Hindwing: more uniform, the veins with terminal black spots; costa broa...

Colotis etrida   (Boisduval, 1836)  കുഞ്ഞൻ ചെഞ്ചിറകൻ Malayalam Name  : കുഞ്ഞൻ ചെഞ്ചിറകൻ Family  : Pieridae Sub-family              : Pierinae Tribe                      :  Leptociaini Order : Lepidoptera DIST RIBUTION                  South Asia and South EastAsia STATUS:    Not common HABITAT  It is common in dry deciduous forests, scrub and fallow lands and found throughout the year. HABITS The characteristics of this species vary according to the season in which the  eggs  are laid IDENTIFICATION  FEATURES Small size Yellow,white and orange butterfly with wingspan 25-45 mm.     The species wingspan is between 50 and 55 mm. Male: The ground colour on the upperside of the males is white, sparsely irrorated (speckled) at base of forewings and hindwings with black scales.   Th...

Colotis danae   (Fabricius, 1775)   ചോര ചിറകൻ Malayalam Name  :  ചോര ചിറകൻ Family  : Pieridae Sub-family              : Pierinae Tribe                      :  Leptociaini Order : Lepidoptera DIST RIBUTION                  Asia and Africa. STATUS:    Not common HABITAT  It is common in dry deciduous forests, scrub and fallow lands and found throughout the year. HABITS The characteristics of this species vary according to the season in which the  eggs  are laid IDENTIFICATION  FEATURES Small to medium size Yellow and white butterfly with wingspan 45-50 mm.   Colouration very variable, especially in the female, from orange to red. . male: Upperside: white, base of wings generally irrorated (speckled), but to a varying extent, with black scales.    Forewing: apex broadly car...