''Pieris naganum'', the Naga white, is a small
butterfly
Butterflies are insects in the macrolepidopteran clade Rhopalocera from the Order (biology), order Lepidoptera, which also includes moths. Adult butterflies have large, often brightly coloured wings, and conspicuous, fluttering flight. The ...
of the family
Pieridae
The Pieridae are a large family of butterflies with about 76 genera containing about 1,100 species, mostly from tropical Africa and tropical Asia with some varieties in the more northern regions of North America and Eurasia.DeVries P. J. in Levi ...
, that is, the yellows and whites, which is found in
Assam
Assam (; ) is a state in northeastern India, south of the eastern Himalayas along the Brahmaputra and Barak River valleys. Assam covers an area of . The state is bordered by Bhutan and Arunachal Pradesh to the north; Nagaland and Manipur ...
and the
Naga Hills in
India
India, officially the Republic of India (Hindi: ), is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by area, the second-most populous country, and the most populous democracy in the world. Bounded by the Indian Ocean on the so ...
and in
Upper Myanmar
Upper Myanmar ( my, အထက်မြန်မာပြည်, also called Upper Burma) is a geographic region of Myanmar, traditionally encompassing Mandalay and its periphery (modern Mandalay, Sagaing, Magway Regions), or more broadly speak ...
.
Description
The upperside of the male is white with the costa of the forewing irrorated (speckled) with black scales up to two-thirds of its length from the base, and also at the apex and the termen to vein 3. Discocellulars with a crescent-shaped black mark; a large elongate black spot in the middle of the interspace 3 produced outwards and joining with the black on the termen.
Hindwing uniform. The underside of the forewing white with the apex creamy white. Underside of the hindwing also ochraceous white.
Antennae black, speckled with white; head, thorax and abdomen above black and beneath white.
The wingspan is about 54 mm.
See also
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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 ...
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List of butterflies of India (Pieridae)
This is a list of the pierid butterflies of India. It forms part of the full List of butterflies of India.
The family Pieridae, or the whites and yellows are a family of butterflies of moderate or small size. The common names refer to the two pred ...
References
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naganum
Butterflies described in 1884
Butterflies of Asia
Taxa named by Frederic Moore