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Hello Friends,
This common Emigrant was captured in Mahabalipuram near Chennai.
I dedicate this to Mariki for helping me to ID my previous post of Wasp. Thanks Mariki.
Common Emigrant or Lemon Emigrant (Catopsilia pomona) is a medium sized pierid butterfly found in Asia and parts of Australia. The species gets its name from its habit of migration. Some early authors considered them as two distinct species Catopsilia crocale and Catopsilia pomona.
The eggs of the butterfly are laid in small batches on various species of plants including several Cassias.
Other host plants include Butea monosperma, Cassia fistula, Bauhinia spp., Pterocarpus indicus, Senna alata and Sesbania species.
Caterpillar
The larva of is described by Bell as "The head is round , green, the clypeus edged with brown, covered with small shiny black tubercles which... do not hide the colour of the head; the anal flap is rounded, but looks square at the extremity, and is covered with rows of small black tubercles... of which only the row along the spiracular line is conspicuous. The spiracles are oval, shiny and white. The colour is green with a spiracular white band touched with bright yellow on segments 2-5, and these segments, especially 3 and 4, are distinctly flanged on the spiracular line.
Pupa
"The pupa has the dorsal line of the thorax absolutely parallel to the longitudinal axis of the pupa for two-thirds of its length, consequently the hinder part junt before the margin is perpendicular to this part, it is raised suddenly but very slightly above the front margin of segment 4, and the front end of this parallel dorsal line is at an angle, and a sharpish angle, with the front slope of the thorax .... the cremaster is distinctly bifid at the extremity, and has some shiny, very stout, black, suspensory hooks dorsally as well as at the extremity. There is a dorsal rugose black tip to the snout terminating the head, which snout is cylindrical in its apical half; there is no black line round the eye and there is a dark green-blue dorsal line which is yellow on the thorax as well as the supra-spiracular yellow line."
Info from Wikipedia
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Hi KV,
A nice capture of this beautiful common emigrant over lantana flowers. Very well composed with a nice black BG. Thanks a lot for sharing.
- Mana
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(18518) - [2008-09-08 19:50]
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Hi KV,
Outstanding shot of this Emigrant with immaculate sharpness and clear details. Fantastic nectar-sucking pose captured on the colourful Lantanas. Great use of flash lighting and the resultant dark BG works well here. Excellent DOF, POV and composition. Very attractive image and thanks for sharing.
Sumon
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- gannu
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(14691) - [2008-09-09 8:53]
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Hello Vral, This is perfect shot and brilliant one. From the shot it appears that you seem to have shot this in the night. The BG is superb.Well done Ganesh
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- iris
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(3016) - [2008-09-19 4:43]
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Hi KV
Happy to come back and see another perspective shot of the Lemon Emigrant.
Excellent details, well saturated colours and i like the way the butterfly almost fills the frame save the little space occupied by the beautiful lantana flowers.
Well done.
TFS & Cheers
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Hi Vral,
I like the way it is composed, particularly lanta flowers is adding to the colours, only wish you could give more space, felt it a bit too tight image. Wonder why most of them choose to shoot / present butterfly images bold. TFS.