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The Mottled Emigrant
Catopsilia pyranthe
11.8081, 76.6918
Field Notes
Description:
The upperside is chalky-white, slightly tinted in some specimens with green. The fore wing is with or without a discocellular black spot, that varies in size
Female: The upperside is as in the male, but sometimes with a suffusion of pale greenish yellow on the terminal third or fourth only of both fore and hind wings, rarely of that tint throughout. The fore wing is always with a discocellular black spot that varies very much in size
Notes:
This one caught my eye while fluttering around in a forest nursery near a forest reserve in south India.
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Catopsilia pyranthe
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PublishedNovember 8, 2011
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