Wednesday, January 5, 2011

MALABAR ROSE BUTTERFLY (Pachliopta pandiyana)

MY OBSERVATIONS

13-06-2003 – Collected a pupa from Thottea plant

The face of the pupa is resemble  monkey’s face
HOST PLANT

                                 Thottea siliquosa (Lam.) Ding.Hou
                                 Genus : Thottea
                                 Family : Aristolochiaceae
                                 Sub Family : Aristolochioideae
                                 In Malayalam : Alpam

 15-06-2003 – Emerged in the morning
It is Malabar Rose Butterfly


MALABAR  ROSE BUTTERFLY (Pachliopta pandiyana)
"Kanana Rose" (In Malayalam)
                                      Atrophaneura pandiyana
                                      Kingdom:    Animalia
                                      Phylum:        Arthropoda
                                      Class:          Insecta
                                      Order:          Lepidoptera
                                      Family:         Papilionidae
                                      Genus:         Atrophaneura
                                      Subgenus:   Pachliopta
                                      Species:      A. (P.) pandiyana
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