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

E. b. 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. It 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

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

Gallery

On Lantana flowers in Hyderabad, India
In Hyderabad, India
Mud-puddling at Talakona forest, in Chittoor district of Andhra Pradesh, India
At Talakona forest, in Chittoor district of Andhra Pradesh, India
In Kawal Wildlife Sanctuary, India
In Areacode, Kerala, India

References

1 2 Woodhall, Steve (2005). Field Guide to Butterflies of South Africa. Cape Town, South Africa: Struik. ISBN 978-1-86872-724-7.

Evans, W.H. (1932). The Identification of Indian Butterflies (2nd ed.). Mumbai, India: Bombay Natural History Society.
Gaonkar, Harish (1996). Butterflies of the Western Ghats, India (including Sri Lanka) - A Biodiversity Assessment of a Threatened Mountain System. Bangalore, India: Centre for Ecological Sciences.
Gay, Thomas; Kehimkar, Isaac David; Punetha, Jagdish Chandra (1992). Common Butterflies of India. Nature Guides. Bombay, India: World Wide Fund for Nature-India by Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0195631647.
Kunte, Krushnamegh (2000). Butterflies of Peninsular India. India, A Lifescape. Hyderabad, India: Universities Press. ISBN 978-8173713545.
Wynter-Blyth, Mark Alexander (1957). Butterflies of the Indian Region. Bombay, India: Bombay Natural History Society. ISBN 978-8170192329.

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Eurema brigitta

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References