Lepidoptera > Papilionoidea > Pieridae > Pierinae > Nepheroniini > Pareronia
Pareronia ceylanica (C. & R. Felder, 1865) – Dark Wanderer
Subspecies in India:
(1) Pareronia ceylanica ceylanica (C. & R. Felder, 1865) – Sri Lankan Dark Wanderer
(2) Pareronia ceylanica naraka (Moore, 1877) – Andaman Dark Wanderer
- Photo Gallery
- Early stages
- Distribution
- Identification
- Status, Habitat and Habits
- Larval Host Plants
- References
Pareronia ceylanica ceylanica – Sri Lankan Dark Wanderer
Pareronia ceylanica naraka – Andaman Dark Wanderer
Early Stages:
Indian and global distribution:
records (based on images):
Larval Host Plants:
Capparis baducca (Wynter-Blyth 1957; Kunte 2000; Robinson et al. 2010) (Capparaceae).
Key Reference:
Nitin, R., V. C. Balakrishnan, P. V. Churi, S. Kalesh, S. Prakash, and K. Kunte. 2018. Larval host plants of the butterflies of the Western Ghats, India. Journal of Threatened Taxa, 10:11495–11550.
For the complete list of larval host plants of Indian butterflies, see the page on larval host plants.
Key Reference:
Nitin, R., V. C. Balakrishnan, P. V. Churi, S. Kalesh, S. Prakash, and K. Kunte. 2018. Larval host plants of the butterflies of the Western Ghats, India. Journal of Threatened Taxa, 10:11495–11550.
For the complete list of larval host plants of Indian butterflies, see the page on larval host plants.
Identification:
Sexual, seasonal & individual variation:
Status, Habitat and Habits:
References:
Lepidoptera > Papilionoidea > Pieridae > Pierinae > Nepheroniini > Pareronia
Cite this page along with its URL as:
Anonymous. 2021. Pareronia ceylanica (C. & R. Felder, 1865) – Dark Wanderer. Kunte, K., S. Sondhi, and P. Roy (Chief Editors). Butterflies of India, v. 3.17. Indian Foundation for Butterflies.
http://www.ifoundbutterflies.org/sp/1003/Pareronia-ceylanica
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