Sunday, November 21, 2010

BLUE ADMIRAL BUTTERFLY (Kaniska canace)


MY OBSERVATIONS

09-07-1993 – Collected and pupa from a hard stemmed plant. Sways very fast when touched.
Pupa is coloured from hard brown to light brown. Having glod and spots and silver patches.

12-07-1993 – Emerging in the morning may be between 9 and 10
                           One side of the wings are coloured like tree bark
Brown Antenna.
                           Yellow legs.

BLUE ADMIRAL BUTTERFLY (Kaniska canace)
“Neelaraajan” (in Malayalam)
Kingdom:            Animalia
Phylum:               Arthropoda
Class:                  Insecta
Order:                  Lepidoptera
Family:                Nymphalidae
Subfamily:           Nymphalinae
Tribe:                   Nymphalini
Genus:                Kaniska (Moore, 1899)
Species:             K. canace

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