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Catopsilia pomona/crocale
Seen in my garden in Tamil Nadu.
@martini. Thanks for the ID and info. I got a confirmation from Peter Smetacek at ButterflyIndia, that it is a Common Emigrant in India, and he lists the form as crocale, Catopsilia crocale. From wiki, it seems that it might have a different name at each end of it's migration, but both names are the same butterfly. I have included both...
Beautiful butterfly and picture pamsai; the composition of colors is very delicate =)
Pamela you can trust Martin's suggestion.... his observation mostly accurate.
Hello Pam. This lemon migrant, as we call them in Australia is a female. Your backlit image is magical but requires me to give some more detail. The obvious link to provide for the ID is this one http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catopsilia_... but it also shows an image in backlit. That is the image on the yellow flower and looks the same as yours but identified as a male. I would never suggest that the Wiki thingy is wrong but merely ask you to check the following detail. Females have thicker marginal black markings. Females have a black central dot on the forewing. You can chose who to follow.
These don't occur in Melbourne so please keep on sharing.
martini do you know what this bug is?
http://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/175...
they completely disappeared the day after I took this photo, so i can't watch their development.
Spotted on Feb 23, 2013
Submitted on Feb 23, 2013
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