Eurema laeta (Boisduval, 1836)

Sidat, Azaz & Bhatt, Urjit, 2020, Annotated checklist of butterflies of Ankleshwar-an industrial town in Gujarat, India, Check List 16 (4), pp. 997-1015 : 1007

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.15560/16.4.997

persistent identifier

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scientific name

Eurema laeta (Boisduval, 1836)
status

 

Eurema laeta (Boisduval, 1836) View in CoL

Spotless Grass Yellow

Figure 6F

Material examined. INDIA • Gujarat, Bharuch district, Ankleshwar; transects T-01, T-02, T-09 ( Table 1); agri- cultural hedges or barren/discarded lands.

Identification. Yellow with distinct seasonal dimor- phism. Wet season form: upper forewing apex and ter- men broadly black, inner edge unevenly rounded and scalloped, upper hindwing with narrow terminal black borders and under forewing with a small black spot at end-cell; female with broader borders and denser black dusting on underside. Dry season form: forewings apex pointed, pale yellow underside with overlaid with light brown scales, with a darker oblique line; upperside wings bright yellow in both sexes.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Lepidoptera

Family

Pieridae

Genus

Eurema

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