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The common leopard is a medium-sized butterfly with a wingspan of 50–55 mm with a tawny colour and marked with black spots. The underside of the butterfly is more glossy than the upper and both the male and female are similar looking. A more prominent purple gloss on the underside is found in the dry-season form of this butterfly. [5]
The Parnassiinae or snow Apollos are a subfamily of the swallowtail butterfly family, Papilionidae. The subfamily includes about 50 medium-sized, white or yellow species. [ 1 ] The snow Apollos are high-altitude butterflies and are distributed across Asia , Europe and North America .
Parnassius clodius is a white butterfly which is found in the United States and Canada. It is a member of the snow Apollo genus ( Parnassius ) of the swallowtail family ( Papilionidae ). Its elevation range is 0–7,000 ft (0–2,134 m).
Wet-season form: Male and female. Upperside bright ochreous. Forewing with two pairs of slender black wavy bars across the cell and a similar pair at end of cell; a black broad inner-discal irregular streak extending obliquely outward beyond the cell from the costa to upper median, followed below the cell by four short narrow streaks, the two upper placed between the medians, and the two lower ...
Cethosia cyane, the leopard lacewing, is a species of heliconiine butterfly found from India to southern China (southern Yunnan), and Indochina. Its range has expanded in the last few decades, and its arrival in the southern part of the Malay Peninsula , including Singapore , is relatively recent.
Forewings and hindwings: basal half shaded and marked with brown, with an angulated transverse broad brown median fascia and a postdiscal transverse brown shading; on the hindwing traversed by a series of obscure dark spots; on the hindwing traversed by a series of obscure dark spots; on the forewing with three, sometimes four, minute subapical ...
Tagiades japetus, commonly known as the pied flat or the common snow flat, [1] is a species of spread-winged skipper butterfly belonging to the family Hesperiidae. It is widely distributed, being found from India, [2] the Himalayas, Southeast Asia, to Australia. It contains several recognized subspecies. [1] [3] [4] [5]
Leptosia nina, the psyche, [1] [2] is a small butterfly of the family Pieridae (the sulphurs, yellows and whites) and is found in Indian subcontinent, southeast Asia and Australia. [1] [2] The upper forewing has a black spot on a mainly white background. The flight is weak and erratic and the body of the butterfly bobs up and down as it beats ...