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Showing posts sorted by date for query Euploea. Sort by relevance Show all posts
Showing posts sorted by date for query Euploea. Sort by relevance Show all posts
Sunday, May 28, 2017
Great Crow/King Crow (Euploea phaenareta corus)
Friday, December 26, 2014
Double Branded Crow (Euploea sylvester montana)
Tuesday, October 30, 2012
Blue Wanderer/Dark Wanderer (Pareronia ceylanica ceylanica)
Rather uncommon butterfly found in low
country below 1800 ft a.s.l. all the year round while seldom also flies in the hills. Its female occurs in three forms and those
forms vary greatly in width of blue markings though all of them are darker than
the male. One such form mimics poisonous Blue tiger and one of another form mimics
Euploea species (Crows) -also poisonous- and by that escape from its predators. Its food plant are Capparis brevispina and Capparis zeylanica (සුදු වෙළන්ගිරිය) of the family Capparaceae.
Wednesday, May 30, 2012
Brown King Crow (Euploea klugii Sinhala)
Common insect flies all over the island
throughout the year. Plentiful in dry zone and scarce in higher hills. It take part in migrations. Brown King Crow's food
plant in larval stage are Streblus zeylanicus and Streblus asper of the family Moraceae. Brown King Crow is mimicked by female of the Great Eggfly, both sexes of Common Palmfly and Common mime.
Monday, April 23, 2012
Single Branded Crow/Common Crow (Euploea core)
Very common butterfly found all over the
island in all the year round. It takes part in migrations. Larva feeds on Adenium obesum (Desert Rose) ,Aganosma cymosa, Allamanda cathartica (වෙල් රුක් අත්තන/Golden trumpet/Yellow allamanda), Anodendron paniculatum, Asclepias curassavica (කන් කුඹල/Wild Ipecacuanha/Mexican milkweed/Blood flower), Carissa spinarum (හීන් කරඹ), Cryptolepis dubia, Gomphocarpus physocarpus (Balloon Cottonbush), Hemidesmus indicus (ඉරමුසු/හීන්-ඉරමුසු), Ichnocarpus frutescens (ගැරඬි වැල්/ගෝපි/ප්රියවර්ණ), Leptadenia reticulata (ජීවන්ති), Mandevilla boliviensis, Nerium oleander (කනේරු/Oleander), Ochrosia oppositifolia, Parsonsia alboflavescens (කිරි අඟුණ/වල් අඟුණ), Pentalinon luteum (Wild allamanda/Hammock viper's tail/Sundial), Pentatropis capensis, Ficus arnottiana (පතන බෝ/කවුඩු බෝ/කපුටු බෝ), Ficus benghalensis (මහ නුග/නුග/Banyan/Krishna bo/Krishna's cup), Ficus benjamina (වලු නුග/Weeping Fig/Benjamin Fig), Ficus exasperata (බූ තෙදිය/සෙවන් මැදිය/Furniture Leaf), Ficus microcarpa, Ficus nervosa, Ficus pumila, Ficus racemosa (අට්ටික්කා), Ficus religiosa(බෝ) , Ficus tinctoria, Secamone emetica and Streblus asper, Egg laying also observed on Plumeria rubra (අරලිය/Frangipani/Temple tree)
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