Description

• Common Name : Spotted Sawtooth
• Scientific Name : Prioneris thestylis (Doubleday)
• Family : PIERIDAE
• Wingspan : 70-90mm
• Colour : Male UP white, with white-streaked or spotted broad black apex on UPF.
• Habit : Powerfulful, high flier, often seen at canopy level and feeding on flowers. Flies in the Himalayan foothills upto 1200m in well wooded country from April to Nov.
• Larval Host Plants : Capparis spp., Crataeva adansonii
• Location : North Bengal

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