Junonia orithya (Linnaeus, 1758)

Sidat, Azaz & Bhatt, Urjit, 2020, Annotated checklist of butterflies of Ankleshwar-an industrial town in Gujarat, India, Check List 16 (4), pp. 997-1015 : 1004

Junonia orithya (Linnaeus, 1758)

Blue Pansy

Figure 5G

Material examined. INDIA • Gujarat, Bharuch dis- trict, Ankleshwar; transects T-01, T-02, T-04, T-06, T-10

( Table 1); agricultural hedges or barren/discarded lands, suburban areas, industrial zone, roadside vegetation, and near ponds with surrounding wetland plants.

Identification. Upper hindwings bright blue; apex pale brown with white bands on the upper forewings; shiny blue in outer discal area below apex in upper forewings.