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Great Eggfly

Hypolimnas bolina

Notes:

Common butterfly in our area. Especially during rainy season. Rests on open ground or on lawn grasses. Rapid flight. 6 white spots on black wings (3 on each). The white spot at middle with bluish border, more at posterior position. Wings with broken white lined margins.

1 Species ID Suggestions

Ashish
Ashish 12 years ago
Danaid Eggfly Male
Hypolimnas misippus Hypolimnas misippus


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4 Comments

Ashish Nimkar
Ashish Nimkar 12 years ago

Chime...
I later find this is Danaid Eggfly.
What is Mimicking in colour shade of wings with Great eggfly in Male
In Female they Mimicking with Plain Tiger

Ashish Nimkar
Ashish Nimkar 12 years ago

I have seen lot of time in trekking in Maharshtra

ChimeTsetan
ChimeTsetan 12 years ago

thanks Ashish. You are a good resource. :)

Ashish Nimkar
Ashish Nimkar 12 years ago

Common Eggfly

ChimeTsetan
Spotted by
ChimeTsetan

Hubballi, Goa, India

Spotted on Jun 18, 2011
Submitted on Jun 18, 2011

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