Eurema andersonii

One-spot Grass Yellow
Eurema andersonii. Museum specimens from Malaya
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Pieridae
Genus:	Eurema
Species:	E. andersonii
Subspecies:	see main article
Binomial name
Eurema andersoni (Moore, 1886)

One-spot Grass Yellow (Eurema andersoni), also known as the Anderson's Grass Yellow, is a small butterfly of the Family Pieridae, that is, the Yellows and Whites, which is found in India and other parts of Asia.

Subspecies and distribution

Listed of subspecies and distribution^[1]

1. E. a. andersoni (Moore, 1886): Peninsular Malaya, Langkawi, Singapore, Sumatra, Borneo, Thailand and Indo-China
2. E. a. godana (Fruhstorfer, 1910): Taiwan
3. E. a. udana (Fruhstorfer, 1910): West Java
4. E. a. ormistoni: (Watkins, 1925): South India
5. E. a. anamba (Corbet & Pendlebury, 1932): Anambas
6. E. a. evansi (Corbet & Pendlebury, 1932): Andaman
7. E. a. jordani (Corbet & Pendlebury, 1932): Sikkim and Bhutan
8. E. a. konoyi (Morishita, 1973): Palawan
9. E. a. nishiyamai (Shirôzu & Yata, 1981): Nias Island
10. E. a. kashiwaii (Shirôzu & Yata, 1981): Sumba Island
11. E. a. sadanobui (Shirôzu & Yata, 1982): Thailand, Laos, Cambodia, South Vietnam, and South Yunnan
12. E. a. albida (Shirôzu & Yata, 1982): Borneo (Sarawak)
13. E. a. shimai (Yata & Gaonkar, 1999): South India

References

• Evans, W.H. (1932), The Identification of Indian Butterflies (2nd Ed.), Bombay Natural History Society, Mumbai, India.
• Gaonkar, Harish (1996), “Butterflies of the Western Ghats, India (Including Sri Lanka)—A Biodiversity Assessment of a Threatened Mountain System,” Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society.
• Gay, Thomas; Kehimkar, Isaac & Punetha, J.C. (1992), Common Butterflies of India, WWF-India and Oxford University Press, Mumbai, India.
• Kunte, Krushnamegh (2005), Butterflies of Peninsular India, Universities Press.
• Wynter-Blyth, M.A. (1957), Butterflies of the Indian Region, Bombay Natural History Society, Mumbai, India.

See also

• Pieridae
• List of butterflies of India
• List of butterflies of India (Pieridae)

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