Insect

Red Pierrot

Talicada nyseus

Red Pierrot (Talicada nyseus) photographed by Devendra Bhardwaj — Image: Devendra Bhardwaj · iNaturalist · CC BY-NC 4.0 · Vaishali Nagar, Jaipur, Rajasthan · Resized

Red Pierrot (Talicada nyseus) photographed by Devendra Bhardwaj — Image: Devendra Bhardwaj · iNaturalist · CC BY-NC 4.0 · Vaishali Nagar, Jaipur, Rajasthan · Resized

Scientific name: Talicada nyseus
Family: Lycaenidae, order Lepidoptera
Group: Insect

A tiny jewel in orange, black and white.

Spot it Small butterfly with red-orange markings below.
Home Scrub and hills.
Food web Caterpillars eat succulent plants like Kalanchoe.
Why it matters Pollinates rocky-ground flowers, and its caterpillars link succulent plants to predators.

Read more: Talicada nyseus on Wikipedia

Sources and credits

Records and field notes

RajasthanDevendra Bhardwaj has 2 verified records of this species on iNaturalist, between 2023 and 2024, in Jaipur.^[20]

Sources

Devendra Bhardwaj. iNaturalist observations and notes, with place and date (inaturalist.org/people/devendrabhardwaj) (field record). The observer's own dated records and notes, with places. Statements in his notes are his own and were not independently checked by KJVF.
GBIF Backbone Taxonomy and GBIF species data (family, order, Hindi names, IUCN category) (database). Open biodiversity data. Used for classification, Hindi common names and the IUCN category where one is given.
Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (opening lines of each species article, CC BY-SA 4.0). The link on each entry goes to the article (reference). Not peer reviewed. Only the opening description is used, and statements about origin or medicinal use are left out.
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