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White Arab

Colotis phisadia vestalis

White Arab (Colotis phisadia vestalis) photographed by Devendra Bhardwaj

Image: Devendra Bhardwaj · iNaturalist · CC BY-NC 4.0 · Shahabad, Rajasthan · Resized

Scientific name
Colotis phisadia vestalis
Family
Pieridae, order Lepidoptera
Group
Insect

A desert-edge butterfly in soft, pale colours.

  • Spot it Pale wings with dark marks at the tips.
  • Home Dry scrub and arid ground.
  • Food web Caterpillars eat caper-family plants; adults pollinate flowers.
  • Why it matters Pollinates dry-land flowers, and its caterpillars connect caper-family plants to birds and lizards.
Sources and credits

Records and field notes

  • RajasthanDevendra Bhardwaj has 1 verified record of this species on iNaturalist in 2019, in Shahabad.[20]

Sources

  1. 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.
  2. 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.
  3. Short introductions and key points written with AI help (Google Gemini and Claude) and checked against GBIF where possible (reference). AI-assisted text for general readers. Please check important details before relying on them.

The tag before each record shows the place it was checked for.

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