Lepidoptera > Papilionoidea > Pieridae > Coliadinae > Catopsilia
Catopsilia scylla (Linnaeus, 1763) – Orange Emigrant
Subspecies in India:
(1) Catopsilia scylla cornelia (Fabricius, 1787) – Peninsular Orange Emigrant
- Photo Gallery
- Early stages
- Distribution
- Identification
- Status, Habitat and Habits
- Larval Host Plants
- References
Catopsilia scylla cornelia – Peninsular Orange Emigrant
Early Stages:
Indian and global distribution:
records (based on images):
This species is historically known from S. Myanmar southeastward into SE Asian islands up to Borneo and the Philippines, and in northern Australia (Evans 1932; Talbot 1939; Corbet et al. 1992; Ek-Amnuay 2012; Inayoshi 2016). Specimens collected by C. Sivaperuman from the Great Nicobar Island and deposited in the Zoological Survey of India, Port Blair, and the images (BOI-cb919 to BOI-cb921) taken at the Campbell Bay, Great Nicobar Island, by Snehaa Sundaram and Dhee and published here on 9 August 2016, represent the first published records of this species from India.
Larval Host Plants:
Identification:
Sexual, seasonal & individual variation:
Status, Habitat and Habits:
References:
Evans, W. H. 1932. The identification of Indian butterflies. 2nd edn. Bombay Natural History Society, Mumbai.
Inayoshi, Y. 2016. A Check List of Butterflies in Indo-China (chiefly from Thailand, Laos and Vietnam). Accessed 09 August 2016. URL: http://yutaka.it-n.jp/pap/10490001.html.
Talbot, G. 1939. Fauna of British India, including Ceylon and Burma. Butterflies, vol. I. Taylor and Francis, London. pp. 600.
Corbet, A. S., H. M. Pendlebury, and J. N. Eliot. 1992. The Butterflies of the Malay Peninsula. 4th revised edn. Malayan Nature Society, Kaula Lumpur.
Ek-Amnuay, P. 2012. Butterflies of Thailand. 2nd edn. Baan Lae Suan (=Amarin) Printing & Publishing Co., Bangkok.
Evans, W. H. 1932. The identification of Indian butterflies. 2nd edn. Bombay Natural History Society, Mumbai.
Inayoshi, Y. 2016. A Check List of Butterflies in Indo-China (chiefly from Thailand, Laos and Vietnam). Accessed 09 August 2016. URL: http://yutaka.it-n.jp/pap/10490001.html.
Talbot, G. 1939. Fauna of British India, including Ceylon and Burma. Butterflies, vol. I. Taylor and Francis, London. pp. 600.
Lepidoptera > Papilionoidea > Pieridae > Coliadinae > Catopsilia
Cite this page along with its URL as:
Sivaperuman, C., S. Sundaram, Dhee, and K. Kunte. 2019. Catopsilia scylla (Linnaeus, 1763) – Orange Emigrant. Kunte, K., S. Sondhi, and P. Roy (Chief Editors). Butterflies of India, v. 2.68. Indian Foundation for Butterflies.
http://www.ifoundbutterflies.org/sp/3046/Catopsilia-scylla
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