Saturday, May 21, 2011

BLUE TIGER MOTH-2


Location : Thachottukavu, Near Malayinkil, Thiruvananthapuram

MY OBSERVATIONS

20-02-2011 – Collected a Caterpillar



24-02-2011 – Become Pupa
08-03-2011 – Emerged in the morning at 8 AM

IT IS A BLUE TIGER MOTH
Dysphania percota (Swinhoe, 1891)
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum:    Arthropoda
Class:      Insecta
Order:      Lepidoptera
Family:    Geometridae
Genus:    Dysphania

HOST PLANT: Carallia brachiata ( “Vallabham” in Malayalam)

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