Pieris krueperi devta

Taxobox | name = Green Banded White


regnum = Animalia
phylum = Arthropoda
classis = Insecta
ordo = Lepidoptera
familia = Pieridae
genus = "Pieris"
species = "P. krueperi"
subspecies = "P. k. devta"
trinomial = "Pieris krueperi devta"
trinomial_authority = (de Nicéville, 1884)

Green-banded White , "Pieris krueperi devta" is a small butterfly of the Family Pieridae, that is, the Yellows and Whites, which is found in India and Pakistan.

Description

Race devta. de Niceville. Male uppersidex dead white. Fore wing: a narrow band of irrorated black scales along basal portion of costa; a wedge-shaped short costal black spot before the apex; apex black; that colour continued along the anterior portion of the termen as a series of inwardly-pointed triangular coalescent spots at apices of veins 4 and 5; lastly, a large black spot in the outer half of interspace 3. Hind wiug : a black costal spot just before the apex, otherwise uniform white. Underside : ground-colour similar. Fore wing: black markings similar to those on the upperside, but the black at apex and on termen replaced anteriorly by a dull faint wash of ochraceous or greenish yellow. Hind wing: basal two-thirds irrorated more or less thickly with black scales, with the exception of a short,very broad, inwardly oblique band of the ground-colour, that extends from the middle of the costa to within the upper portion of the discoidal cell; the outer margin of the area irrorated with black scales is transverse from costa to interspace 5, thence curved outwards to vein 4 and obliquely to vein 1a. Antennae brown, paler at their apices ; head fuscous; thorax and abdomen black ; beneath: whitish.

Female upperside similar to that in the male, but the black markings on the fore wing broader, more conspicuous and extended lower along the termen than in the male; on the hind wing the black costal spot larger, with in most specimens a well-marked spot also in interspace 3, and in many a series of detached terminal black spots at the apices of the veins. These markings are very prominent in some specimens from Quetta. Underside: as in the male. Fore wing: the additional black spot in interspace 1 small, the black spot in interspace 3 very large. Hind wing: the terminal series of black spots of the upperside diffuse, more or less continuous or coalescing and washed over with a greenish tint. Antennae, thorax and abdomen as in the male. [Bingham, C. T. 1907. Fauna of British India. Butterflies. Vol. 2] Expanse of 44-54 mm.

Description

Found in Ladakh; Baluchistan; Pishin.

References

ee also

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