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Common Emigrant (female)

Catopsilia pomona/crocale

Photo by pamsai
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Field Notes

Habitat:

Seen in my garden in Tamil Nadu.

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Catopsilia pomona

Species ID Suggestions

Lemon emigrant

Catopsilia pomona

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MartinL
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Comments (13)
pamsai
thanks to everyone who favourited this beauty...
pamsai
thanks Patty for your lovely comment.
pamsai
thanks Ashish for your comment, and praise for martini. I second this heartily!
pamsai
@martini. Thanks for the ID and info. I got a confirmation from Peter Smetacek at ButterflyIndia, that it is a Common Emigrant in India, and he lists the form as crocale, Catopsilia crocale. From wiki, it seems that it might have a different name at each end of it's migration, but both names are the same butterfly. I have included both...
patty
Beautiful butterfly and picture pamsai; the composition of colors is very delicate =)
Ashish
Pamela you can trust Martin's suggestion.... his observation mostly accurate.
MartinL
Hello Pam. This lemon migrant, as we call them in Australia is a female. Your backlit image is magical but requires me to give some more detail. The obvious link to provide for the ID is this one http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catopsilia_pomona but it also shows an image in backlit. That is the image on the yellow flower and looks the same as yours but identified as a male. I would never suggest that the Wiki thingy is wrong but merely ask you to check the following detail. Females have thicker marginal black markings. Females have a black central dot on the forewing. You can chose who to follow. These don't occur in Melbourne so please keep on sharing.
pamsai
martini do you know what this bug is? http://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/17594300 they completely disappeared the day after I took this photo, so i can't watch their development.
pamsai
thanks martini for the ID...

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PublishedFebruary 23, 2013

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