Project butterfly Mankulam Division

Horaga viola  Moore, 1882 Malayalam Name      : പുള്ളി ഗോമേദകം Common Name ; Bright Blue Common Onyx Order  : Lepidoptera Super Family             : Papilionoidae (Butterflies) Family               :  Lycaenidae Sub Family : Theclinae DISTRIBUTION :   The species found distrubted in South Asia STATUS:   HABITAT  :  HABITS : IDENTIFICATION  FEATURES:  SIMILAR SPECIES :  LARVAL HOST PLANTS Mangifera indica  (Anacardiaceae).  Coriaria nepalensis  (Coriariaceae). LIFE CYCLE MORE IMAGES Courtesy  Write up:Wikipaedia Images: TNHS കേരള വനം വന്യജീവി വകുപ്പ്   മാങ്കുളം ഡിവിഷൻ

  Rapala iarbus sorya  Malayalam Name      : ചെമ്പൻ മിന്നൻ Common Name ; Indian Red Flash Order  : Lepidoptera Super Family             : Papilionoidae (Butterflies) Family               :  Lycaenidae Sub Family : Theclinae DISTRIBUTION :  The species found distrubted in South  and Southeast Asia and i it is seen across India except in the arid regions of Northwest and Northeast.    . STATUS:   HABITAT  :  HABITS : IDENTIFICATION  FEATURES:    SIMILAR SPECIES :  LARVAL HOST PLANTS Terminalia catappa  (Combretaceae).  Homonoia riparia  (Euphorbiaceae).  Acacia  leucophloea ,  Desmodium dalbergioides ,  Desmodium oojeinense ,  Xylia xylocarpa  (Fabaceae).  Melastoma malabathricum ,  Melastoma polyanthum  (Melastomataceae).  Averrhoa bilimbi  (Oxali...

Hypolycaena nilgirica  (Hewitson, 1865) Nilgiri Tit Malayalam Name      :  നീലഗിരി നീലി Common Name ; Nilgiri Tit Order  : Lepidoptera Super Family             : Papilionoidae (Butterflies) Family               :  Lycaenidae Sub Family : Theclinae DISTRIBUTION: Asia STATUS:  Very Rare in WG. HABITAT : Found in the lowland regions to mid-hills   HABIT:  It flies close to the ground and flight similar to much the common white fourring ( Ypthima ceylonica ). So it can be often mistaken for it. . IDENTIFICATION FEATURES:  LARVAL HOST PLANT:  orchid species such as  Arundina graminifolia ,  Spathoglottis plicata ,  Vanda tesssellata , etc MORE IMAGES    Courtesy  Write up:Wikipaedia Images: TNHS കേരള വനം വന്യജീവി വകുപ്പ്   മാങ്കുളം ഡിവിഷൻ

Malayalam Name      :  ചിത്ര   തളിർനീലി Common Name ; Indian Aberrant Oakblue Order  : Lepidoptera Super Family             : Papilionoidae (Butterflies) Family               :  Lycaenidae Sub Family : Theclinae DISTRIBUTION :   The species found distrubted in    and the subspecies found in South India and Sri Lanka. STATUS:   HABITAT  :  HABITS : IDENTIFICATION  FEATURES:  SIMILAR SPECIES :  LARVAL HOST PLANTS The larvae are known to feed on  Terminalia  (Combretaceae).  Cassia fistula  ,  Entada  (Fabaceae). Species of  Spindasis LIFE CYCLE MORE IMAGES Courtesy  Write up:Wikipaedia Images: TNHS കേരള വനം വന്യജീവി വകുപ്പ്   മാങ്കുളം ഡിവിഷൻ

Zesius chrysomallus Hübner, 1819  Mal ayalam Name : ചെംപൊട്ടു നീലി Order : Lepidopte ra Family : Lycaenidae Sub-family :  Theclinae Sub species :  Zesius chrysomallus common names : Red Spot DISTRIBUTION India & Sri Lanka STATUS: HABITAT:  .  HABITS IDENTIFICATION  FEATURES Male. Upperside pale cupreous-red, veins finely blackish-brown. Forewing with the costa and outer margin with a narrow brown band of fairly even width throughout. Hindwing with the costal space and abdominal fold pale brown; outer margin more narrowly brown, narrowing hindwards, the abdominal space outside the fold suffused narrowly with brown; a sub-terminal brown spot in each of the three anal interspaces, margined by a slender greyish-blue line, often obsolescent; SIMILAR SPECIES Common Small Flat LARVAL HOST PLANTS Terminalia catappa and Smilax zeylanica. MORE IMAGES   Courtesy  Write up:Wikipaedia Images: TNHS & iFoundbutterfly.org കേരള വനം വന്യജീവി വകുപ്പ് ...