| 5439878 |
grass demon |
Udaspes folus |
The Grass Demon (Udaspes folus) is a small butterfly with a wingspan of about 4 to 4.8 cm. It is black with a large white spot on the upperside of the hind wing and several smaller whites spots on the forewing. The underside of its wings is mostly white with brown edges and spots. Habits The Grass Demon prefers forest edges or clearings where dappled light is present. Its black and white colouration may have evolved to take advantage of the dappled light in these areas. The pied pattern which seems prominent in the open is effectively disruptive in the shade and the butterfly is difficult to locate once it settles down. It is a bold insect and not easily disturbed. It usually flies in the shade among bushes and under trees keeping low and close to the ground. From time to time, it takes short flights, and, occasionally, much longer excursions into the open clearings. Its flight is quick and the path is very erratic making it very difficult to track when in flight. When basking it sits on the upperside of leaves of herbs or bushes with its hind wings pressed flat against the surface and its fore wings held half open at an angle above the hind wings. This butterfly also has a unique wing flashing display most often seen just after it has alighted on a leaf. It will move its hind wings down toward the leaf surface. When the hind wings are about half way down the fore wings also start moving downwards. On the upward beat both wings are moved simultaneously till the hind wings come together. Then it again begins the downward beat. Each beat is performed very slowly and the butterfly is very conspicuous during this time. This display is unique since no other peninsular Indian butterfly is known to display the capability of moving forewings and hindwings separately. The Grass Demon is a nectar lover and has a long proboscis compared to body size. This makes it easy to get to nectar of flowers with long corolla tubes. In gardens, the Common Periwinkle (Vinca rosea) and Lantana are its favourite flowers. It rarely visits bird or dung droppings. It is fond of water and often seen perched on a stone in a stream-bed. |
| 5439879 |
quaker |
Neopithecops zalmora |
The Quaker (Neopithecops zalmora) is a small butterfly found in South Asia and Southeast Asia that belongs to the Lycaenids or Blues family. Upperside of both sexes dark purplish brown; in the female slightly paler on the disc of the fore wing. In most specimens, but not in all, the male also has the disc of the fore wing similarly paler. Underside; white. Fore wing: apex dusky brown, apices of veins 10, 11 and 12 with a minute black dot; no discal markings, but the discocellulars picked out with a short, very slender, obscure brown line; a postdiscal, irregular, transverse series of slender brown lunules, followed by a transverse, very slender, sinuous brown line, the white ground-colour in the interspaces beyond centred by a subterminal series of transverse black spots. Hind wing: discocellulars with a short brown line similar to that on the fore wing, followed by a subdorsal small round black spot, and a subcostal much larger similar spot; between these two spots is a curved, very irregular line of detached pale ashy-brown lunules; the subterminal markings very similar to those on the fore wing. Cilia of fore wing dusky brown, of hind wing white. Antenna, head, thorax and abdomen dark brown; the antenna on the inner side speckled with white; beneath; the palpi, thorax and abdomen white. |
| 5439880 |
rustic |
Cupha erymanthis |
The Rustic (Cupha erymanthis) is a species of brush-footed butterfly found in forested areas of tropical South Asia and Southeast Asia. It is a restless butterfly through out. |
| 5439797 |
dingy bush-brown |
Mycalesis perseus |
Status in India : Common/ some places rare
Description The distinguishing feature of this species of Mycalesis is that the ocellus (eye-spot) in space 2 of the hindwing below is moved inwards and out of line with the other ocelli adjacent to it. Habitat & Habits The species shares the same habits as the other Mycalesis species and usually lurks in shady, but open areas in the vicinity of grassland. Its host plant is likely to be one of the species of grasses. Mycalesis perseus cepheus has the same feeble flight as the other members of this genus and usually stops with wings folded closed as shown in the photo. Occasionally, an individual may bask with wings opened in bright sunlight. It is relatively common in Singapore, where it is usually found at the fringes of the nature reserves in shady grassy wasteland, and is found in the company of the other Mycalesis species and The Nigger. |
| 5439798 |
pigmy scrub hopper |
Aeromachus pygmaeus |
Pigmy scrub hopper is usually seen around grasslands, particularly in Monsoon season. It is a very small skipper seen in Indian sub continent. |
| 5422734 |
psyche butterfly |
Leptosia nina |
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| 5402627 |
Nymphalid moth |
Euthalia aconthea |
Photographed on Mangifera indica.
The male is brown with slight traces of olive. The forewing has two transverse short black lines at the base, a black loop across the middle, and another beyond apex of cell, with their centres dark brown, followed by an angulated discal dark brown band bordered outwardly by a series of five white spots; two preapical white spots beyond and a broad, somewhat diffuse, subterminal black band broadening over the apex and angulated inwards in interspace 1. Hind wing shaded with dark brown at base, two crescent-shaped dark brown loop-like marks in cell; a discal series of dark brown, elongate, outwardly acute, inwardly diffuse, somewhat hastate spots, followed by a subterminal series of small spots of the same colour. Underside ochraceous brown. Fore wing on the underside shows five transverse slender black lines across cell; a black spot below median vein; discal and preapical white spots as on the upperside, succeeded by a postdiscal series of somewhat diffuse crescent-shaped black marks, and a broad terminal pale lilac band not reaching the apex, bordered narrowly along the termen with dark brown. Hind wing with four or five slender black loops at base, a posteriorly obsolescent postdiscal series of diffuse black marks and a subterminal series of black dots; the termen near apex touched with pale lilac. Antennae, head, thorax and abdomen dark brown, the antennae ochraceous at the tip, the body paler beneath.
The female is similar but of a paler shade. Upperside forewing differs from that of the male in the absence of the dark discal and subterminal bands, and in the series of discal spots being elongate, much larger. The hind wing has the discal series of outwardly pointed black-markings only as traces. Underside similar to that of the male, but the groundcolour more ochraceous, the markings larger, more diffuse.
Race vasanta, Moore is found in Srilanka. It resembles the nominate race, but in the male the white spots on the fore wing are entirely absent, above and below ; the discal hand on both fore and hind wing on the upperside is more irregular and not nearly so well-defined ; on the fore wing the interspace between it and the subterminal band and on the hind wing the posterior half suffused with dark green 5 the terminal margin of the fore and anterior half of the hind wing tinged with pink. Underside similar, but both the ground-colour and markings paler; the latter less prominent. Female. Differs prominently on both upper and under sides in the discal row of white spots being more oblique and complete, extending from the costa to near the apex of interspace 2.
The wing expanse is 68-79 mm. |
| 5402629 |
lycaenid butterfly |
Zizula hylax |
Photographed on Acanthaceae.
Male Upperside: dull violet-blue, which changes to a brighter tint of violet in certain lights. Fore wing: the costa very narrowly, the termen much more broadly dull brown; this edging to the termen in most specimens decreases in width from apex to tornus, and is outwardly followed by an anticiliary darker brown line. Cilia brownish anteriorly, posteriorly brownish at the base with the apical portions white. Hind wing: the ground-colour brighter than on the fore wing, the costal and terminal margins much more narrowly edged with brown, which edging is merged in the anticiliary dark brown line. Cilia: brown along their basal halves, white apically.
Underside: grey. Fore wing: a dusky brown lunular line on the discocellulars; two subcostal spots above the cell, one on either side of the discocellular lunule; a very strongly curved discal series of five spots, of which the posterior three are somewhat lunular in shape and placed obliquely en echelon, the next above these hook-shaped, the anterior spot round; both the subcostal spots and the spots of the discal series are black, each narrowly encircled with white; beyond these are inner and outer subterminal dusky lines, which anteriorly are continuous, posteriorly somewhat broken and macular, followed by a very conspicuous jet-black anticiliary slender line. Cilia greyish white, traversed by a medial transverse blackish-brown line. Hind wing: with the following small white-encircled black spots:—a subbasal transverse series of three, followed by a highly curved series of eight spots, that curve across the disc of the wing to the costa and along the latter towards the base; discocellulars with a dusky short lunular line as on the fore wing; terminal markings and cilia similar, but the outer and broader subterminal line more broken and macular than on the fore wing. Antennae black, the shafts ringed with white; head, thorax and abdomen dark brown, with a little violet pubescence on the head and thorax; beneath: palpi, thorax and abdomen greyish white.
Female Upperside: glossy brown, without any violet tint whatever; the anticiliary darker brown lines on both fore and hind wings well marked. Underside: very similar to that of the male, the ground-colour a shade darker, the markings slightly larger and more prominent. Antenna, head, thorax and abdomen as in the male, but the latter three without a trace of violet or blue on the upperside.
The Tiny Grass Blue is found in several races throughout tropical and subtropical Africa, Asia, and Oceania, including India, Japan, the Philippines, Singapore, Swaziland, north and east coasts of Australia and also in southern Australia.
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| 5402628 |
rice swift |
Borbo cinnara |
Borbo cinnara, commonly known as the Rice Swift or Formosan Swift, is a butterfly belonging to the family Hesperiidae. |
| 5393426 |
common jay |
Graphium doson |
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| 5393427 |
common jay |
Graphium doson |
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| 5393428 |
common mormon |
Papilio polytes |
female mimics Common Rose |
| 5393429 |
common mormon |
Papilio polytes |
female mimics Common Rose |
| 5393430 |
common mormon |
Papilio polytes |
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| 5393431 |
common mormon |
Papilio polytes |
mating |
| 5393432 |
Tailed Jay butterfly |
Graphium agamemnon |
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| 5393370 |
bamboo treebrown |
Lethe europa |
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| 5393371 |
common evening brown |
Melanitis leda |
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| 5393129 |
monkey puzzle |
Rathinda amor |
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| 5393130 |
yamfly |
Loxura atymnus |
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| 5391534 |
Mimic |
Hypolimnas misippus |
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| 5392745 |
zebra blue |
Leptotes plinius |
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| 5392744 |
grass jewel |
Chilades trochylus |
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| 5392743 |
blue tiger moth |
Dysphania percota |
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| 5390584 |
dingy bush-brown |
Mycalesis perseus |
This is a medium sized, brown, inconspicuous butterfly. There is an eye spot on the upperside of each forewing at the outer margin. The underside varies with the seasonal forms. The wet season form has a white line running from the leading margin of the forewing to the tornus of the hind wing. A series of eye spots is enclosed in the area between this line and the wing margin. The female and the male look identical in coloration and markings, but the later has small, black, hairy brands in the region of overlap between the hind and forewings. |
| 5391535 |
tawny coster |
Acraea violae |
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| 5390586 |
Medus brown |
Orsotriaena medus |
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| 5390585 |
giant red eye skipper |
Gangara thyrsis |
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| 5391533 |
common palmfly |
Elymnias hypermnestra |
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| 5390081 |
water snow flat |
Tagiades litigiosa |
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| 5390080 |
Mimic |
Hypolimnas misippus |
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| 5390079 |
common snow flat |
Tagiades japetus |
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| 5383753 |
common grass yellow |
Eurema hecabe |
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