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Spot Puffin
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Spot Puffin

Appias lalage

Appias lalage, the spot puffin, is a small butterfly of the family Pieridae, that is, the yellows and whites, which is found in India, Indochina and Hainan.

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Description

Wet-season brood: Male. Upperside greyish-white; basal area of fore wing glossy. Forewing with the base of costal border thickly irrorated with grey-black scales, these scales are also more or less scattered along upper area of the cell to the discocellular black spot, the black then extending costally into a broad outer marginal decreasing band, which latter ends abruptly at the lower median, and in some specimens black scales are more or less scattered obliquely-inward to the posterior margin, thus enclosing a white spot at the angle, similar to that in the female, the anterior inner-edge of the band curves sinuously outward from the costal border above end of the cell to upper median, below which it extends quadrately inward and then outward to the lower median, the band enclosing two small white sub-apical obliquely-disposed spots, sometimes also an obscure upper spot, and a large angular spot between the upper and middle median; a more or less large black spot is also present on the lower discocellular veinlet, this spot being generally slenderly or broadly joined to the outer band along the upper median veinlet. …

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