Pontia chloridice

Taxobox | name = Lesser Bath White
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Arthropoda
classis = Insecta
ordo = Lepidoptera
familia = Pieridae
genus = "Pontia"
species = "P. chloridice"
binomial = "Pontia chloridice"
binomial_authority = Hübner, 1803/18

Lesser Bath White , "Pontia chloridice" is a small butterfly of the Family Pieridae, that is, the Yellows and Whites, which is found in Asia. It is found in Chitral and Ladakh in India and Pakistan.

Description

:"See glossary for terms used"Male upperside ground colour white. The forewing has the discocellulars edged broadly with black on each side ; a short broad transverse preapical black bar from costa to vein 6 and another similar short bar further outwards from vein 6 to middle of interspace 4, followed by three outwardly-pointed, somewhat oval, black terminal spots just below the apex. Hind wing : uniform, unmarked. Underside : white. Fore wing : the markings as on the upperside, but those at apex green and with a few scattered superposed black scales on the upper preapical bar. Hind wing : basal area green, an oval white spot in middle of cell, a transverse white bar in middle of interspace 7, and the precostal area edged with white above ; beyond the cell is a highly sinuous, curved, discal, white band, followed by a complete series of longitudinally rectangular, white, terminal spots, the space between the discal band and the white spots green, this colour continued along the veins that separate the spots up to the termen. Antennae, head, thorax and abdomen fuscous, the antennae with pale tips, the thorax with some white hairs ; beneath : head, thorax and abdomen whitish.

Female differs as follows : Upperside, fore wing: the black edging to the discocellulars broader; a curved, postdiscal, irregular, macular, black band, the upper three and lowest spot that compose it large, the spot in inter-space 2 small, sometimes subobsolete, the middle two spots of the band coalescent outwardly with the series of terminal black spots, of which there are six (in the male these vary from 3 to 5). Hind wing : an anterior, postdiscal, short, curved, macular, black band, often subobsolete, followed by a more or less complete terminal series of spots at the apices of the veins. Underside : as in the male ; also the antennae, head, thorax and abdomen. [Bingham, C. T. 1907. Fauna of British India. Butterflies. Vol 2.]

References

ee also

*Pieridae
*List of butterflies of India
*List of butterflies of India (Pieridae)

External links

*http://www.eurobutterflies.com/species_pages/chloridice.htm