Eurema blanda

Three-spot grass yellow

In Kadavoor, Kerala, India
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Pieridae
Genus:	Eurema
Species:	E. blanda
Binomial name
*Eurema blanda* Boisduval, 1836

Eurema blanda, the three-spot grass yellow, is a small butterfly of the family Pieridae, that is, the yellows and whites, which is found in India and Southeast Asia.

Food plants

Caesalpinia mimosoides and Bauhinia purpurea.^[1]

Eurema blanda laying eggs on Albizia julibrissin

Mud-puddling

External links

Life cycle of Eurema blanda.

Notes

↑ Kunte, K. (2006). Additions to known larval host plants of Indian butterflies. J. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc. 103(1):119-120.

References

Evans, W.H. (1932). The Identification of Indian Butterflies. (2nd Ed). Bombay Natural History Society, Mumbai, India
Gaonkar, Harish (1996). Butterflies of the Western Ghats, India (including Sri Lanka) - A biodiversity assessment of a threatened mountain system. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society.
Gay, Thomas; Kehimkar, Isaac & Punetha, J.C. (1992). Common Butterflies of India. WWF-India and Oxford University Press, Mumbai, India.
Kunte, Krushnamegh (2005). Butterflies of Peninsular India. Universities Press.
Wynter-Blyth, M.A. (1957). Butterflies of the Indian Region. Bombay Natural History Society, Mumbai, India.

Gallery

In Talakona forest, in Chittoor District of Andhra Pradesh, India.
In Talakona forest, in Chittoor District of Andhra Pradesh, India.
At Narendrapur near Kolkata, West Bengal, India.
On a Synedrella nodiflora (Cinderella weed) in Kolkata, West Bengal, India.
In Kolkata, West Bengal, India.
In Kolkata, West Bengal, India.

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