Eurema blanda

Three-Spot Grass Yellow

In Kadavoor, Kerala, India
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Pieridae
Genus:	Eurema
Species:	E. blanda
Binomial name
*Eurema blanda* Boisduval, 1836

The Three-Spot Grass Yellow (Eurema blanda) is a small butterfly of the Family Pieridae, that is, the Yellows and Whites, which is found in India and Southeast Asia.

Food plants

Caesalpinia mimosoides and Bauhinia purpurea.^[1]

Eurema blanda laying eggs on Albizia julibrissin

Mud-puddling

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Life cycle of Eurema blanda.

Notes

↑ Kunte, K. (2006). Additions to known larval host plants of Indian butterflies. J. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc. 103(1):119-120.

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.

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