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Butterfly

Small Salmon Arab

Colotis amata

Small Salmon Arab feeding on a small white flower
Scientific name
Colotis amata
Family
Pieridae, order Lepidoptera
Group
Butterfly

A small desert butterfly the colour of a sunset.

  • Spot it Salmon-pink to orange wings with dark borders; small and quick.
  • Home Dry scrub and thorny country, the kind of land much of Rajasthan is made of.
  • Caterpillar food Plants of the Salvadora family, such as the desert shrub pilu.
  • Why it matters Shows that dry scrub, often called wasteland, is full of life.

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