Eurema brigitta

Small grass yellow
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Pieridae
Genus:	Eurema
Species:	E. brigitta
Binomial name
Eurema brigitta (Cramer, 1780)
Synonyms
Papilio brigitta Stoll, [1780] Maiva sulphurea Grose-Smith & Kirby, 1893 Xanthidia pulchella Boisduval, 1833 Terias drona Horsfield, [1829] Terias senna C. & R. Felder, [1865] Terias fruhstorferi Moore, 1906 Terias hainana Moore, 1878 Terias rubella Wallace, 1867 Papilio libythea Fabricius, 1798 Terias australis Wallace, 1867

Broad-bordered grass yellow (Eurema brigitta brigitta), Mabibi, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa

Eurema brigitta, the small grass yellow or broad-bordered grass yellow, is a small butterfly of the family Pieridae, that is, the yellows and whites, which is found in India, other parts of Asia, Australia and Africa.

The wingspan is 30–35 mm. Adults are on the wing year-round.^[1]

The larvae feed on Hypericum aethiopicum and Chamaecrista mimosoides.^[1]

Subspecies

• Eurema brigitta brigitta - the broad-bordered grass yellow (Tropical Africa)
• Eurema brigitta pulchella (Boisduval, 1833) (Madagascar, Mauritius, Comoro Islands, Aldabra Islands)
• Eurema brigitta drona (Horsfield, [1829]) (Sumatra, Java to Lombok)
• Eurema brigitta senna (C. & R. Felder, [1865]) (Peninsular Malaya, Singapore, Indochina)
• Eurema brigitta fruhstorferi (Moore, 1906) (eastern Indo-China)
• Eurema brigitta ina Eliot, 1956 (southern Sulawesi)
• Eurema brigitta hainana (Moore, 1878) (Hainan)
• Eurema brigitta rubella (Wallace, 1867) (Sri Lanka, India, Burma to southern China, Nicobars)
• Eurema brigitta formosana Matsumura, 1919 (Taiwan)
• Eurema brigitta yunnana (Mell)
• Eurema brigitta australis (Wallace, 1867) (Australia, New Guinea, Papua New Guinea)

See also

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

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.

Habits, Behavior, Views

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  on Lantana flowers in Hyderabad, India

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  in Hyderabad, India

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  mud-puddling at Talakona forest, in Chittoor District of Andhra Pradesh, India

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  at Talakona forest, in Chittoor District of Andhra Pradesh, India

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  in Kawal Wildlife Sanctuary, India.

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