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Rathinda amor
Wingspan: 26-28mm Status: Not rare Distr.: India (South India up to Gujrat, orissa, West Bangal, Sikkim to Arunachal Pradesh, Northeast), Bangladesh, Shri Lanka.
Prefers mixed deciduous forests with good rainfall & plains as well as hills up to 900m. Weak, fluttering flight, keeps to undergrowth and clearings, usually near the larval food plants.
Adult: HW has tree tails. UN white to dark yellowish brown. UNF has irregular dark basal markings. curved white discal line and a broad, rich dark brown, apical patch. UNH with irregular dark spots and lines, and a silver marginal line, UP of both sexes dark brown; UPH with two black tornal spots and a narrow dark reddish band above and beyond them. LF: Ixora spp., and other plants belonging to Rubiaceae, Dipterocarpaceae, Euphorbiaceae, Lortanthaceae, Sapindaceae an Myrtaceae. Found in Dahanu (Asawa fort), Maharashtra, India
Spotted on Dec 18, 2011
Submitted on Feb 22, 2012
15 Comments
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Welcome..!!
hey thanx...
n thanx 4 d link Ashish... :)
Yogesh go through following link...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rathinda_am...
Beautiful butterfly!!!!! generally I sow this butterfly on "Rubiaceae family" (Ixora).Why? anyone know?
ok.. thanks.. :)
You can edit your spottings. As a Ranger I can do correction work. No need to add Scientist's name with Binomial ID. It will raise the confusion as third name is reserved for sub-specie of races in same specie. You can check my Bird spottings mentioned races after Binomial ID.
@ Ashish... how did u remove this? :O
btw.. its all knowledge 4 bio & zoo students..
Hi Rajas I removed Latin name classifier's name from Binomial name's space in your favor.
Great spotting..!!
This is amazing butterfly..!!
Very nice!
Hey thank u frnds... :)
Superb series...!!!
TFS :-)
lovely !
wonderful spotting!