Colotis aurora (Cramer, 1780)

Sidat, Azaz & Bhatt, Urjit, 2020, Annotated checklist of butterflies of Ankleshwar-an industrial town in Gujarat, India, Check List 16 (4), pp. 997-1015 : 1007

Colotis aurora (Cramer, 1780)

Plain Orange-tip

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Material examined. INDIA • Gujarat, Bharuch dis- trict, Ankleshwar; transects T-01, T-02, T-03, T-04, T-05, T-06, T-07, T-08, T-09, T-10 ( Table 1); agricultural hedges or barren/discarded lands, suburban areas, indus- trial zone, roadside vegetation, and near ponds with sur- rounding wetland plants.

Identification. Male upperside white, upper forewing with broad orange-yellow apical patch with black outer border, upper hindwing usually with marginal black vein spots; female upper forewing black apical area enclosing three or four elongate, orange or pale-yellow spots.