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Grey Pansy Butterfly

Grey Pansy Butterfly

The Gray Pansy or Grey Pansy (Junonia atlites) is a species of nymphalid butterfly found in South Asia.

Dark Grass Blue

Dark Grass Blue

The Dark Grass Blue or African Grass Blue (Zizeeria knysna), is a species of blue butterfly. Commonly found in and around garden, wetland, along the forest edges of South Bengal; weak flier, flies very close to ground; often seen basking with its wings half open.

Lemon Pansy

Lemon Pansy

The Lemon Pansy (Junonia lemonias) is a common nymphalid butterfly found in South Asia. It is found in gardens, fallow land, and open wooded areas.

Common Wanderer

Common Wanderer

The Common Wanderer (Pareronia valeria) is a medium sized butterfly of the family Pieridae, that is, the Yellows and Whites, and is found in India.

Common Mormon

Common Mormon

The Common Mormon (Papilio polytes) is a common species of swallowtail butterfly widely distributed across Asia.

Common Palmfly

Common Palmfly

The Common Palmfly, Elymnias hypermnestra, is a species of satyrid butterfly found in south Asia. This butterfly species is dimorphic, males and females do not look alike. Males exhibit black colored upperside forewings with small blue patches and reddish brown color on upperside hindwings, while the females mimic butterfly species of the genus Danaus.

Common Lime

Common Lime

Papilio demoleus is a common and widespread swallowtail butterfly. It gets its common names from its host plants, which are usually citrus species such as the cultivated lime. The butterfly has also been referred to as the Butterfly of Death, a name it shares with a morphologically similar species, Papilio demodocus, which flies in Africa.

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