Guardian Nature School Team Contact Blog Project Noah Facebook Project Noah Twitter

A worldwide community photographing and learning about wildlife

Join Project Noah!
nature school apple icon

Project Noah Nature School visit nature school

Psyche or Wandering Flowflake

Leptosia nina

Description:

A small butterfly of the family Pieridae (the Sulphurs, Yellows and whites) and is found in Southeast Asia and the Indian subcontinent. The upper forewing has a black spot on a mainly white background. The flight is weak and erratic and the body of the butterfly bobs up and down as it beats its wings. They fly low over the grass and the butterfly rarely leaves the ground level. - Wikipedia @ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psyche_butt...

Habitat:

Urban garden.

Notes:

In ancient Greek, psyche means both "butterfly" and "soul" .

Species ID Suggestions



Sign in to suggest organism ID

2 Comments

nexttogone
nexttogone 11 years ago

It is beautiful.

KarenL
KarenL 11 years ago

Beautiful!

Nueva Ecija, Philippines

Spotted on Nov 18, 2012
Submitted on Nov 18, 2012

Related Spottings

Psyche Psyche Leptosia nina malayana Psyche

Nearby Spottings

Slant-faced Grasshopper Variable Ladybird Bright-orange Darter Hypena Moth

Reference

Noah Guardians
Noah Sponsors
join Project Noah Team

Join the Project Noah Team