Mottled Emigrant Butterfly (Male)

The Mottled Emigrant, Catopsilia pyranthe (Linnaeus, 1758), is a medium-sized butterfly of the Family Pieridae found in South Asia, Southeast Asia and parts of Australia.

The male upperside is chalky-white, slightly tinted with green. The underside is a greenish tint that varies to an ochraceous yellow, and evenly irrorated over the greenish or ochraceous-tinted areas with transverse, short, reddish-brown strigae.

Subspecies in the Philippines generally is Catopsilia pyranthe pyranthe (Linnaeus, 1758). With recorded hostplants: Cassia sp., (trees in the Papilionaceae), Senna occidentalis (Caesalpinaceae).