| Three-spot grass yellow | |
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| Phuket, Thailand | |
Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Pieridae |
| Genus: | Eurema |
| Species: | E. blanda |
| Binomial name | |
| Eurema blanda Boisduval, 1836 | |
| Synonyms | |
Eurema blanda, thethree-spot grass yellow,[3][4] is a smallbutterfly of thefamilyPieridae which is found inSri Lanka,India andsoutheast Asia.[3][4][1][2]
Wet form: Male. Upper-side lemon-yellow. Fore-wing with the outer marginal black band anteriorly broader than in Sri Lankan specimens ofEurema hecabe, the posterior end shorter and its inner edge outwardly oblique. Hind-wing with a moderately broad black outer band. Underside. Both wings with more or less defined ordinary markings of wet form. Fore-wing with three marks in the cell, in addition to the discocellular. No sub-apical patch. Female. Not seen.
Intermediate form: Male. Not seen. Female. Upper-side. Fore-wing with similar outer band to the wet form. Hind-wing with a broad black outer marginal band. Underside with slightly-defined ordinary brown markings as in wet form. Fore-wing with a brown sub-apical patch.
Dry form: Smaller than in wet form. Male. Upper-side. Fore-wing with narrower outer marginal band, its posterior end much smaller. Hind-wing with a slender outer band. Underside. Both wings with similar ordinary markings to the wet form. Fore-wing with a more or less defined sub-apical patch. Female. Upper-side. Fore-wing with a broader black outer band than in male. Hind-wing with a much broader outer band than in male. Underside. Both wings similar to male.
Extreme Dry form: Male not seen. Female. Upper-side. Fore-wing with a broad black outer band, its posterior portion angled obliquely outward from the lower median veinlet. Hind-wing with a moderately broad outer band. Underside. Both wings with ordinary markings as in dry form. Fore-wing with a prominent almost complete quadrate apical brown patch.
— Charles Swinhoe,Lepidoptera Indica. Vol. VII[2]
Pale yellowish oval-shaped eggs are laid under or upper the leaves and hatch after about three days.
They are light green in color in first instar and they become bright green color in the last instar.
After 20 days from the hatching , the larva become pupa. Pupae are light green in color and , they become butterflies and emerged from the chrysails after a week.
Caesalpinia mimosoides andBauhinia purpurea.[5]
One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from this source, which is in thepublic domain:Bingham, C.T. (1907).The Fauna of British India, Including Ceylon and Burma. Vol. II (1st ed.). London:Taylor and Francis, Ltd. pp. 257–258. One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from this source, which is in thepublic domain:Swinhoe, Charles (1905–1910).Lepidoptera Indica. Vol. VII. Vol. 7. London: Lovell Reeve and Co. pp. 65–66.{{cite book}}:ISBN / Date incompatibility (help)
