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Common Name: Common Jezebel

Photo by Alok Tewari
Mumbai, Maharashtra, India, 29 Sep. 2014
Delias eucharis

Identification

  • Wingspan : 65-85 mm
  • Underwing is much brighter than Upper.
  • In both sexes underhind yellow with black wings and a black border containing large white-ringed arrow-head shaped red spots, pointing outward.
  • Female is more heavily marked.
  • Upper white with black veins and black outer discal band in males and white tinged with yellow and pink in females.

Distribution

Taxonomy

Habitat

  • Seen on trees along city roads to forests.
  • Variety of habitats including Temperate hill forests, Rain-forests, Open Woodlands and beach hinterland.

Behaviour

  • Females stay high up in the canopy and come down for nectaring.
  • Fond of flowers and comes to water.
  • Slow and fluttering flight .
  • Suns itself with closed wings helping black lines to absorb the heat.

Mimicry

  • It is distasteful to birds.
  • Mimicked closely by Painted Sawtooth ( Prioneris sitta ). The orange spots in hindwing of this species are squarish.

Larval Food Plant

  • Dendrophthoe falcata, Helicanthes elastica

References

  1. Kehimkar, Isaac. The Book of Indian Butterflies. 2011 Reprint. Bombay Natural History Society. Oxford Univ. Press. ISBN (13): 978019569620 2
  2. Nelson, Rodrigues. Butterflies of Mumbai. MMR Environment Improvement Society. Anitha Art Printers. ISBN-978-81-926884-0-4
  3. Wikipedia page Common Jezebel Butterfly.
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