Insect

Striped Albatross

Appias libythea

Striped Albatross (Appias libythea) photographed by Devendra Bhardwaj — Image: Devendra Bhardwaj · iNaturalist · CC BY-NC 4.0 · Vaishali Nagar, Jaipur, Rajasthan · Resized

Scientific name: Appias libythea
Family: Pieridae, order Lepidoptera
Group: Insect

A pale butterfly with finely inked black veins.

Spot it White wings with dark vein tips and a yellow-green underside.
Home Forest edges, scrub and gardens.
Food web Caterpillars eat leaves of the caper family; adults sip nectar.
Why it matters Pollinates flowers as it feeds, while its caterpillars and adults feed birds, lizards and spiders.

Read more: Appias libythea on Wikipedia

Sources and credits

Records and field notes

RajasthanDevendra Bhardwaj has 1 verified record of this species on iNaturalist in 2022, 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 Not peer reviewed.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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