Eurema brigitta
"Small grass yellow" redirects here. For the other butterfly with this common name, see Eurema smilax.
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Pieridae |
| Genus: | Eurema |
| Species: | E. brigitta |
| Binomial name | |
| Eurema brigitta (Cramer, 1780) | |
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E. b. brigitta, Mabibi, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa
Eurema brigitta, the small grass yellow or broad-bordered grass yellow, is a small butterfly of the family Pieridae, that is, the yellows and whites. It is found in India, other parts of Asia, Australia and Africa.
The wingspan is 30–35 mm. Adults are on the wing year-round.[1]
The larvae feed on Hypericum aethiopicum and Chamaecrista mimosoides.[1]
Subspecies
- E. b. brigitta (tropical Africa)
- E. b. pulchella (Boisduval, 1833) (Madagascar, Mauritius, Comoro Islands, Aldabra Islands)
- E. b. drona (Horsfield, [1829]) (Sumatra, Java to Lombok)
- E. b. senna (C. & R. Felder, [1865]) (Peninsular Malaya, Singapore, Indochina)
- E. b. fruhstorferi (Moore, 1906) (eastern Indo-China)
- E. b. ina Eliot, 1956 (southern Sulawesi)
- E. b. hainana (Moore, 1878) (Hainan)
- E. b. rubella (Wallace, 1867) (Sri Lanka, India, Burma to southern China, Nicobars)
- E. b. formosana Matsumura, 1919 (Taiwan)
- E. b. yunnana (Mell)
- E. b. australis (Wallace, 1867) (Australia, New Guinea, Papua New Guinea)
Gallery
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In Hyderabad, India
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Mud-puddling at Talakona forest, in Chittoor district of Andhra Pradesh, India
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At Talakona forest, in Chittoor district of Andhra Pradesh, India
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In Kawal Wildlife Sanctuary, India
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In Areacode, Kerala, India
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See also
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References
- Evans, W.H. (1932). The Identification of Indian Butterflies (2nd ed.). Mumbai, India: Bombay Natural History Society.
- Gaonkar, Harish (1996). Butterflies of the Western Ghats, India (including Sri Lanka) - A Biodiversity Assessment of a Threatened Mountain System. Bangalore, India: Centre for Ecological Sciences.
- Gay, Thomas; Kehimkar, Isaac David; Punetha, Jagdish Chandra (1992). Common Butterflies of India. Nature Guides. Bombay, India: World Wide Fund for Nature-India by Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0195631647.
- Kunte, Krushnamegh (2000). Butterflies of Peninsular India. India, A Lifescape. Hyderabad, India: Universities Press. ISBN 978-8173713545.
- Wynter-Blyth, Mark Alexander (1957). Butterflies of the Indian Region. Bombay, India: Bombay Natural History Society. ISBN 978-8170192329.
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