Project butterfly Mankulam Division

Catochrysops panormus exiguus (Distant, 1886)  Malayalam Name      : വെൺ നീലകൻ Common Name : Malay Forget-me-not Order  : Lepidoptera Super Family             : Papilionoidae (Butterflies) Family               :  Lycaenidae Sub Family : Polyommatinae Synonyms : Lycaena panormus DISTRIBUTION This species can be found in  Indo-Malayan and Australian Realm   STATUS:  Common HABITAT HABITS IDENTIFICATION  FEATURES Small butterfly with wingspab  is 25-35 mm . SIMILAR SPECIES: LARVAL HOST PLANTS Cultivated legumes (Family Leguminoseae) LIFE CYCLE MORE  IMAGES Courtesy...

Freyeria trochylus (Freyer, 1845)   Malayalam Name      : ആഫ്രിക്കൻ രത്ന നീലി Common Name : African Grass Jewel Order  : Lepidoptera Super Family             : Papilionoidae (Butterflies) Family               :  Lycaenidae Sub Family : Polyommatinae Synonyms : Chilades trochylus DISTRIBUTION This species can be found in  Africa, Asia, Southern Europe   STATUS:  Common HABITAT HABITS IDENTIFICATION  FEATURES Very small butterfly with  wingspan  is 20-22 mm . SIMILAR SPECIES: LARVAL HOST PLANTS Crotalaria hebecarpa, Indigofera spp., Lotus corniculatus, Pisum sativum, Rhynchosi...

Chilades parrhasius parrhasius (Fabricius, 1793) — Parrhasius Small Cupi   Malayalam Name      : കുഞ്ഞി മാരൻ Common Name : Parrhasius Small Cupid Order  : Lepidoptera Super Family             : Papilionoidae (Butterflies) Family               :  Lycaenidae Sub Family : Polyommatinae Synonims : Hesperia parrhasius DISTRIBUTION Species found in Indo-Malayan Realm. The sub species syntala distributed in Peninsular India. STATUS:  HABITAT HABITS IDENTIFICATION  FEATURES Small Blue butterfly with wingspan about 20-25 mm. Male:   Upperside dark greyish-blue, with a lilacine tint. Hindwing with the costal margin broadly blackish; the outer ...

  Ypthima tabella Marshall & de Niceville, 1883 — Malayalam Name      : ചെറു പഞ്ചനേത്രി Common Name ; Sahyadri Baby Five Ring Order  : Lepidoptera Super Family             : Papilionoidae (Butterflies) Family               :  Nympalidae Sub Family : Satyrinae DISTRIBUTION :  South India STATUS :  HABITAT  :  HABITS : IDENTIFICATION  FEATURES:  Medium-sized brown butterfly with wingspan of 22 to 25 mm. The upper side of the male is brown, uniform in color. Fore-wing has a bipupilled ocellus. Hind-wing has two submarginal ocelli between the median nervules . The underside is pale brown. Fore-wing has one ocellus. Hind-wing has s...

  Ypthima singale Hewitson, 1865   Malayalam Name      : ശ്രീലങ്കൻ പഞ്ചനേത്രി Common Name ; Sinhalese Five Ring Order  : Lepidoptera Super Family             : Papilionoidae (Butterflies) Family               :  Nympalidae Sub Family : Satyrinae DISTRIBUTION :  South India and Sri Lanka STATUS :  HABITAT  :  HABITS : IDENTIFICATION  FEATURES:  Medium-sized brown butterfly with wingspan of 3 0 to 35 mm. Adult Ypthima singala show sexual dimorphism . In male specimens, the dorsal surface of both wings is brownish and one large eye-spot and a series of smaller eyespots are found on the ventral surface of the forewing. ...