''Eurema brigitta'', the small grass yellow
[ or broad-bordered grass yellow, is a small ]butterfly
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of the family Pieridae
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, that is, the yellows and whites. It is found in India, other parts of Asia, Australia and Africa.
Description
The wingspan
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is 30–35 mm. Adults are on the wing year-round.
Food plants
The larvae feed on ''Hypericum
''Hypericum'' is a genus of flowering plants in the family Hypericaceae (formerly considered a subfamily of Clusiaceae). The genus has a nearly worldwide distribution, missing only from tropical lowlands, deserts and polar regions. Many ''Hype ...
aethiopicum'' and ''Chamaecrista
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mimosoides''.[
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Subspecies
*''E. b. brigitta'' – tropical Africa
*''E. b. pulchella'' (Boisduval, 1833) – Madagascar, Mauritius, Comoro Islands, Aldabra Islands
*''E. b. drona'' (Horsfield, 829
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Events
By place
Byzantine Empire
* October 2 – Emperor Michael II dies after an 8-year reign in C ...
– Sumatra, Java to Lombok
*''E. b. senna'' (C.&R.Felder, 865
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Events
By place Europe
* King Louis the German divides the East Frankish Kingdom among his three sons. Ca ...
– Peninsular Malaya, Singapore, Indochina
*''E. b. fruhstorferi'' (Moore, 1906) – eastern Indo-China
*''E. b. ina'' Eliot, 1956 – southern Sulawesi
*''E. b. hainana'' (Moore, 1878) – Hainan
*''E. b. rubella'' (Wallace, 1867) – Sri Lanka, India, Burma to southern China, Nicobars
*''E. b. formosana'' Matsumura, 1919 – Taiwan
*''E. b. yunnana'' (Mell)
*''E. b. australis'' (Wallace, 1867) – Australia, New Guinea, Papua New Guinea
Gallery
Broad-bordered grass yellow butterfly (Eurema brigitta brigitta).jpg, ''E. b. brigitta'', KwaZulu-Natal
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, South Africa
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Small grass yellow (Eurema brigitta pulchella).jpg, ''E. b. pulchella'', Madagascar
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Eurema brigitta from bangalore.JPG, ''E. b. rubella'', Bangalore
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, India
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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)
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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Butterflies described in 1780
Butterflies of Asia
Butterflies of Africa
Butterflies of Indochina
Taxa named by Pieter Cramer