Eurema andersonii

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One-spot grass yellow
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Museum specimens from Malaya
Close wing position of Eurema andersonii Moore, 1886 - One-spot Grass YellowWLB DSC 0056 (2).jpg
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Pieridae
Genus: Eurema
Species:
E. andersonii
Binomial name
Eurema andersonii
(Moore, 1886)
Synonyms
  • Terias andersoniiMoore, 1886
  • Eurema andersoni inoueiShirôzu & Yata, 1981
  • Eurema andersoni borneensisShirôzu & Yata, 1981

Eurema andersonii, the one-spot grass yellow [1] or Anderson's grass yellow, is a small butterfly of the family Pieridae, that is, the yellows and whites, which is found in Bangladesh, India, Myanmar and other parts of Asia. [1] [2] [3] [4] [5]

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Description

Wet form: Male. Upper-side. Fore-wing with the outer marginal band moderately broad, the medial portion inclined slightly inward, and the lower portion very slightly inclined obliquely-outward. Hind-wing with a moderately broad outer band. Underside with slightly defined ordinary markings. Fore-wing with two cell-marks, basal obsolescent. Female not seen.

Dry form (fig. 2a, b). Male. Upper-side similar to the wet form. Underside with the ordinary markings distinct. Fore-wing with a medial cell mark, and a more or less well-defined sub-apical patch.

Female. Upper-side paler. Fore-wing with slightly broader outer band. Hind-wing with a moderately broad outer band. Underside similar to the male.

Charles Swinhoe, Lepidoptera Indica . Vol. VII [5]

Subspecies and distribution

Subspecies are: [2]

Life cycle

The larvae have been recorded on Ventilago goughii . [7]

See also

References

  1. 1 2 Varshney, R.K.; Smetacek, Peter (2015). A Synoptic Catalogue of the Butterflies of India. New Delhi: Butterfly Research Centre, Bhimtal & Indinov Publishing, New Delhi. p. 68. doi:10.13140/RG.2.1.3966.2164. ISBN   978-81-929826-4-9.
  2. 1 2 Savela, Markku. "Eurema andersoni (Moore, 1886)". Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms. Retrieved July 1, 2018.
  3. Yata, Osamu (1991). "A Revision of the Old World Species of the Genus Eurema Hubner (Lepidoptera, Pieridae)" (PDF). Bull. Kitakyushu Mas. Nat. Hisl. 10 (7): 26–38. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2018-04-20. Retrieved 2018-04-19.
  4. PD-icon.svg One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain : Bingham, C.T. (1907). The Fauna of British India, Including Ceylon and Burma. Vol. II (1st ed.). London: Taylor and Francis, Ltd. pp. 254–255.
  5. 1 2 PD-icon.svg One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain : Swinhoe, Charles (1905–1910). Lepidoptera Indica. Vol. VII. London: Lovell Reeve and Co. p. 71.
  6. Yata, O.; Gaonkar, H. (1999). "A New Subspecies of Eurema andersonii (Lepidoptera: Pieridae) from South India" (PDF). Entomological Science. 2 (2): 281–285.
  7. Ravikanthachari Nitin; V.C. Balakrishnan; Paresh V. Churi; S. Kalesh; Satya Prakash; Krushnamegh Kunte (2018-04-10). "Larval host plants of the buterfies of the Western Ghats, India". Journal of Threatened Taxa. 10 (4): 11524. doi: 10.11609/jott.3104.10.4.11495-11550 via JoTT.