Biology:Eurema andersonii

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Short description: Species of butterfly


One-spot grass yellow
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Museum specimens from Malaya
Close wing position of Eurema andersonii Moore, 1886 – One-spot Grass YellowWLB DSC 0056 (2).jpg
Scientific classification edit
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Pieridae
Genus: Eurema
Species:
E. andersonii
Binomial name
Eurema andersonii
(Moore, 1886)
Synonyms
  • Terias andersonii Moore, 1886
  • Eurema andersoni inouei Shirôzu & Yata, 1981
  • Eurema andersoni borneensis Shirôzu & Yata, 1981

Eurema andersonii, the one-spot grass yellow[1] or Anderson's grass yellow, is a small butterfly of the family Pieridae, that is, the yellows and whites, which is found in India, Myanmar and other parts of Asia.[1][2][3][4][5]

Description

Wet form: Male. Upper-side. Fore-wing with the outer marginal band moderately broad, the medial portion inclined slightly inward, and the lower portion very slightly inclined obliquely-outward. Hind-wing with a moderately broad outer band. Underside with slightly defined ordinary markings. Fore-wing with two cell-marks, basal obsolescent. Female not seen.

Dry form (fig. 2a, b). Male. Upper-side similar to the wet form. Underside with the ordinary markings distinct. Fore-wing with a medial cell mark, and a more or less well-defined sub-apical patch.

Female. Upper-side paler. Fore-wing with slightly broader outer band. Hind-wing with a moderately broad outer band. Underside similar to the male.

Subspecies and distribution

Subspecies are:[2]

  • E. a. andersoni (Moore, 1886) Peninsular Malaya, Langkawi, Singapore, Sumatra, Borneo, Thailand and Indo-China
  • E. a. godana (Fruhstorfer, 1910) Taiwan
  • E. a. udana (Fruhstorfer, 1910) West Java
  • E. a. ormistoni (Watkins, 1925) South India
  • E. a. anamba (Corbet & Pendlebury, 1932) Anambas
  • E. a. evansi (Corbet & Pendlebury, 1932) Andaman
  • E. a. jordani (Corbet & Pendlebury, 1932) Sikkim and Bhutan
  • E. a. konoyi (Morishita, 1973) Palawan
  • E. a. nishiyamai (Shirôzu & Yata, 1981) Nias Island
  • E. a. kashiwaii (Shirôzu & Yata, 1981) Sumba Island
  • E. a. sadanobui (Shirôzu & Yata, 1982) Thailand, Laos, Cambodia, southern Vietnam, and southern Yunnan
  • E. a. albida (Shirôzu & Yata, 1982) Borneo (Sarawak)
  • E. a. shimai (Yata & Gaonkar, 1999) southern India [6]

Life cycle

The larvae have been recorded on Ventilago goughii.[7]

See also

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 Varshney, R.K.; Smetacek, Peter (2015). A Synoptic Catalogue of the Butterflies of India. New Delhi: Butterfly Research Centre, Bhimtal & Indinov Publishing, New Delhi. pp. 68. doi:10.13140/RG.2.1.3966.2164. ISBN 978-81-929826-4-9. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/287980260. 
  2. 2.0 2.1 Savela, Markku. "Eurema andersoni (Moore, 1886)". http://www.nic.funet.fi/pub/sci/bio/life/insecta/lepidoptera/ditrysia/papilionoidea/pieridae/coliadinae/eurema/#andersoni. 
  3. Yata, Osamu (1991). "A Revision of the Old World Species of the Genus Eurema Hubner (Lepidoptera, Pieridae)". Bull. Kitakyushu Mas. Nat. Hisl. 10 (7): 26–38. http://www.kmnh.jp/wp-content/themes/kmnh_jp/images/pdf/10-1-E-Yata.pdf. 
  4. This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Bingham, C.T. (1907). The Fauna of British India, Including Ceylon and Burma. II (1st ed.). London: Taylor and Francis, Ltd.. pp. 254–255. https://archive.org/stream/butterflies02bingiala#page/254/mode/2up/. 
  5. This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Swinhoe, Charles (1905–1910). Lepidoptera Indica. Vol. VII. London: Lovell Reeve and Co.. pp. 71. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/103631#page/85/mode/1up. 
  6. Yata, O.; Gaonkar, H. (1999). "A New Subspecies of Eurema andersonii (Lepidoptera: Pieridae) from South India". Entomological Science 2 (2): 281–285. http://dl.ndl.go.jp/view/download/digidepo_10656217_po_ART0003849499.pdf?contentNo=1&alternativeNo=. 
  7. Ravikanthachari Nitin; V.C. Balakrishnan; Paresh V. Churi; S. Kalesh; Satya Prakash; Krushnamegh Kunte (2018-04-10). "Larval host plants of the buterfies of the Western Ghats, India". Journal of Threatened Taxa 10 (4): 11524. doi:10.11609/jott.3104.10.4.11495-11550. http://threatenedtaxa.org/index.php/JoTT/article/view/3104/4402. 

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