''Eurema blanda'', the three-spot grass yellow,
[ is a small ]butterfly
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of the family
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Pieridae
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which is found in Sri Lanka
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, India
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and southeast Asia
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.
Description
Life Cycle
Egg
Pale yellowish oval-shaped eggs are laid under or upper the leaves and hatch after about three days.
Larva
They are light green in color in first instar and they become bright green color in the last instar.
Pupa
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.
Food plants
'' Caesalpinia mimosoides'' and ''Bauhinia purpurea
''Bauhinia purpurea'' is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae, native to the Indian subcontinent and Myanmar, and widely introduced elsewhere in tropical and subtropical areas of the world. Common names include orchid tree, purple ...
''.[Kunte, K. (2006). Additions to known larval host plants of Indian butterflies. ''Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society'' 103(1):119-120.]
See also
*List of butterflies of India
The following is a list of the butterflies of India.
India has extremely diverse terrain, climate and vegetation, which comprises extremes of heat cold, desert and jungle, of low-lying plains and the highest mountains, of dryness and dampness, i ...
* List of butterflies of India (Pieridae)
Notes
References
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External links
"Life cycle of the Three-spot Grass Yellow (''Eurema blanda'')"
Nature Magnified. Retrieved July 6, 2016.
blanda
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Butterflies of Asia
Butterflies of Indochina
Butterflies of Singapore
Butterflies described in 1836
Taxa named by Jean Baptiste Boisduval
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