Description

• Common Name : Angled Castor
• Scientific Name : Ariadne ariadne (Linnaeus)
• Family : NYMPHALIDAE
• Wingspan : 45-60mm
• Colour : Reddish brown with regular slender single lines.
• Habit : Flight is typical, with low beatings of wings and intermittently sailing like sailers with jerky and irregular movements. Seen basking generally near food plants. Fly about 1.5 m above the ground, often settling on leaves and low bushes with body parallel to the sun rays.
• Larval Host Plants : Ricinus communis, Tragia involucrata etc.
• Location : Throughout West Bengal

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