Eurema blanda

Three-spot grass yellow
In Kadavoor, Kerala, India
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Pieridae
Genus:	Eurema
Species:	E. blanda
Binomial name
Eurema blanda Boisduval, 1836

Eurema blanda, the three-spot grass yellow, is a small butterfly of the family Pieridae, that is, the yellows and whites, which is found in India and Southeast Asia.

Food plants

Caesalpinia mimosoides and Bauhinia purpurea.^[1]

Laying eggs on Albizia julibrissin

Mud-puddling

Gallery

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  In Talakona forest, in Chittoor district of Andhra Pradesh, India
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  At Narendrapur near Kolkata, West Bengal, India
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  On a Synedrella nodiflora (Cinderella weed) in Kolkata, West Bengal, India
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  In Kolkata, West Bengal, India

See also

• List of butterflies of India
• List of butterflies of India (Pieridae)

Notes

References

• Evans, W.H. (1932). The Identification of Indian Butterflies (2nd ed.). Mumbai, India: Bombay Natural History Society. 
• Gaonkar, Harish (1996). Butterflies of the Western Ghats, India (including Sri Lanka) - A Biodiversity Assessment of a Threatened Mountain System. Bangalore, India: Centre for Ecological Sciences. 
• Gay, Thomas; Kehimkar, Isaac David; Punetha, Jagdish Chandra (1992). Common Butterflies of India. Nature Guides. Bombay, India: World Wide Fund for Nature-India by Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0195631647. 
• Kunte, Krushnamegh (2000). Butterflies of Peninsular India. India, A Lifescape. Hyderabad, India: Universities Press. ISBN 978-8173713545. 
• Wynter-Blyth, Mark Alexander (1957). Butterflies of the Indian Region. Bombay, India: Bombay Natural History Society. ISBN 978-8170192329. 

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Eurema blanda.

• "Life cycle of the Three-spot Grass Yellow (Eurema blanda)". Nature Magnified. Retrieved July 6, 2016.