Colotis fausta (Olivier, 1804)

Sidat, Azaz & Bhatt, Urjit, 2020, Annotated checklist of butterflies of Ankleshwar-an industrial town in Gujarat, India, Check List 16 (4), pp. 997-1015 : 1008

Colotis fausta (Olivier, 1804)

Large Salmon Arab

Figure 7A

Material examined. INDIA • Gujarat, Bharuch dis- trict, Ankleshwar; transects T-01, T-02, T-03, T-05, T-07, T-08, T-09 ( Table 1); agricultural hedges or barren/dis- carded lands, and near ponds with surrounding wetland plants.

Identification. Male upperside pale to deep salmon pink with upper forewing having black cell spot, broad black apex bearing spots of ground color, and terminal border narrow to a point at or near tornus, upper hindwing with marginal black spots, upper forewing with brand; female with dimorphic, white upperside with black margins, a distinctive spot at the subapical area of forewing. Anten- nae, head, thorax, and abdomen dusky black.