The Monkey Puzzle

Description:

Wingspan - 26 to 28 mm. The butterfly has a weak flight, it stays low and does not fly for long without alighting. Its method of alighting is interesting - as soon as it lands, it turns around and waggles its tail filaments, it also sidesteps for a while - all this is apparently to confuse a predator as to which side is the head. This is a likely reason that the first naturalists may have named the species the Monkey Puzzle. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rathinda_am...)

Habitat:

Not Rare in India. It is common and present in all the Western Ghat districts of Kerala, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu and Goa

Notes:

I found this in Alathur, Palakkad District, Kerala, India