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Small Orange-Tip, ''Colotis etrida'' is a small butterfly of the Family Pieridae, that is, the Yellows and Whites, which is found in India. ==Description== :''See glossary for terms used'' The ground colour on the upperside of the males is white, sparsely irrorated at base of fore and hind wings with black scales. Fore wing has a small black spot on the discocellulars ; apex broadly black, with an enclosed oval, curved, rich orange patch placed obliquely and traversed by the veins, which there are black ; inner edge of black area diffuse. Hind wing is uniform, except for a preapical short diffuse black streak from the costa, sometimes absent, and a series of terminal black spots that in specimens from moist localities are very large. Underside is white with the cell and apex of fore wing suffused with sulphur-yellow, the orange patch of the upperside shows through by transparency, its inner edge margined anteriorly by a very obscure oblique fuscous band. Hind wing has the preapical short transverse black streak on the upperside obscurely indicated.〔Bingham, C. T. 1907. Fauna of British India. Butterflies. Vol. 2〕 The female is very similar to the male but can be distinguished as follows : Upperside of fore wing has a narrower orange patch enclosed within the black apical area; a small black spot in middle of interspace 1 and another in interspace 3. Hind wing has the terminal spots slightly larger. On the underside the apex of fore and whole surface of hind wing suffused lightly, or in specimens from very dry localities heavily, with ochraceous. Fore wing has spots in interspaces 1 and 3 as on the upperside. Hind wing : a curved, almost complete, discal series of fuscous spots ; otherwise as in the male.〔 In both sexes the antennae vary from white to pale brownish ; head, thorax and abdomen black, the head and thorax with short greyish-brown hairs ; beneath : the palpi, thorax and abdomen white.〔 Found from the outer ranges of the Himalayas throughout peninsular India except Bengal. Race ''limbata'' is found in Sri Lanka. and it has the black apical area on fore wing darker, broader, occupying about a third of the wing ; the orange patch enclosed within it is proportionately narrower, so that the black on its inner margin has the appearance of being broader proportionately than it is in the typical form. Very often this inner edge is bordered by a suffusion of sulphur-yellow. Specimens from south Indian hills resemble this closely.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Colotis etrida」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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