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... foodplants available for their purpose and so a migration of the surplus population takes place . Though this solution may be satisfactory in some cases , in others it is not , as migrations sometimes take place long before the females ...
... foodplants available for their purpose and so a migration of the surplus population takes place . Though this solution may be satisfactory in some cases , in others it is not , as migrations sometimes take place long before the females ...
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... food after the first two stages , but occasionally dines off the edges of its own particular one . In the last stage ... foodplants of the larvae are Mussaenda frondosa , the well - known climbing shrub with the small red tubular flower ...
... food after the first two stages , but occasionally dines off the edges of its own particular one . In the last stage ... foodplants of the larvae are Mussaenda frondosa , the well - known climbing shrub with the small red tubular flower ...
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... foodplants . Given favourable circum- stances vast numbers of these butterflies hatch out and the possibility of a shortage of food for their innumerable offspring leads to mass migrations to other regions where there may be abundance ...
... foodplants . Given favourable circum- stances vast numbers of these butterflies hatch out and the possibility of a shortage of food for their innumerable offspring leads to mass migrations to other regions where there may be abundance ...
Contents
INTRODUCTION | 1 |
KEY TO FIELD IDENTIFICATION OF THE COMMONEST BUTTERFLIES | 15 |
A KEY TO THE Families of BUTTERFLIES | 33 |
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Amblypodia apex FW apical Assam and Burma Baluchistan basal Bengal Bhutan black border black spots brand Bushbrown butterfly caught Ceylon Chitral Common Coorg costa damp patches Danais dark border dark brown Description discal band discal line discal spots dorsum Eriboea Euploea Euthalia feed feet females flies flight fond foodplants forest forewings genus Grass Habits Hedge Blue Himalayas hindwing insect jungle Kanara Kumaon larvae last species leaf Lethe low elevations Lycaenopsis Madhya Pradesh males Manipur markings Mussoorie Mycalesis Naga Hills narrow Neptis Nilgiris numbers NYMPHALIDS Oakblue ocelli orange Orissa outer discal paler Pantoporia Papilio plains Plate prominent Range Rapala rare regions Sailer settling sexes Sikkim to Assam South India spot end cell Status streak SWALLOWTAILS tail tawny termen tornus Treebrown trees underside UNUP upperside UPUN usually veins visit flowers Western Ghats white discal white spots wings Ypthima