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Catopsilia pyranthe

Catopsilia pyranthe, the mottled emigrant, is a medium-sized butterfly of the family Pieridae found in south Asia, southeast Asia, and parts of Australia.

Description
Male The upperside is chalky white, slightly tinted in some specimens with green. The forewing is with or without a discocellular black spot, that varies in size; costa and termen sometimes without a black margin; occasionally the costa has its apical third narrowly black, broadened slightly at the apex with black spots between the anterior veins; or again, the costa may be narrowly black, the apex very broadly so, and this colour continued down the termen but narrowed posteriorly. The hindwing is sometimes immaculate, but generally with narrow terminal black spots at the apices of the veins, these often reduced to mere dots, or again so broadened as to coalesce into a narrow terminal black margin. ==Life history==
Life history
The host plants of the species include Cassia species (e.g., C. fistula; C. javanica or C. roxburghii; C. bakeriana), Gnidia glauca, Senna occidentalisSenna species (e.g. S. alata; S. auriculata; S. garrettiana), Crotalaria species, Ormocarpum cochinchinense, Sesbania species and Colocasia. The development period from egg to adult is 22 to 29 days allowing up to 11-12 generations a year. Larva: "Long, somewhat depressed, rough, green, with a white lateral line and above it a black line more or less conspicuous, formed by minute black shining tubercles. In short, this larva in very like a big specimen of a Eurema hecabe". Pupa: "Much stouter (i.e. than that of Eurema hecabe, and the keel formed by the wing-cases much less pronounced. The normal colour is pale green with a yellow lateral line. We have never found it on any plant except Senna occidentalis. It habitually rests on the upperside along the midrib, like almost all Pierine larvae." Davidson and Aitken, quoted in Bingham. == Larval host plants ==
Range
India, Myanmar, Bangladesh, Malaya and New Guinea. ==Gallery==
Gallery
File:Mottled Emigrant (Catopsilia pyranthe) mating in Hyderabad, AP W IMG 9444.jpg|Mating in Hyderabad, India File:Mottled Emigrant Catopsilia pyranthe eggs.JPG|Eggs on Senna occidentalis File:Mottled Emigrant Catopsilia pyranthe larvae.JPG|Caterpillar File:Mottled Emigrant Catopsilia pyranthe pupa.JPG|Empty Pupal case File:Mottled Emigrant Close up.jpg|Close up | Sri Lanka File:Mottled Emigrant Mud Puddling.jpg|Mud Puddling | Sri Lanka File:Catopsilia pyranthe male, Burdwan, West Bengal, India 14 09 2012.jpg|Catopsilia pyranthe on Catharanthus roseus ==See also==
References and notes
• Shihan, T.R. (2016). A Photographic Guide to the Butterflies of Bangladesh. Butterfly Reintroduction Farm, Chuadanga, Bangladesh, 165pp.
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