Eurema andersonii

Species of butterfly

One-spot grass yellow

Museum specimens from Malaya

Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Pieridae
Genus:	Eurema
Species:	E. andersonii
Binomial name
*Eurema andersonii* (Moore, 1886)
Synonyms
Terias andersonii Moore, 1886 Eurema andersoni inouei Shirôzu & Yata, 1981 Eurema andersoni borneensis Shirôzu & Yata, 1981

Eurema andersonii, the one-spot grass yellow^[1] or Anderson's grass yellow, is a small butterfly of the family Pieridae, that is, the yellows and whites, which is found in India, Myanmar and other parts of Asia.^[1]^[2]^[3]^[4]^[5]

Description

Wet form: Male. Upper-side. Fore-wing with the outer marginal band moderately broad, the medial portion inclined slightly inward, and the lower portion very slightly inclined obliquely-outward. Hind-wing with a moderately broad outer band. Underside with slightly defined ordinary markings. Fore-wing with two cell-marks, basal obsolescent. Female not seen.
Dry form (fig. 2a, b). Male. Upper-side similar to the wet form. Underside with the ordinary markings distinct. Fore-wing with a medial cell mark, and a more or less well-defined sub-apical patch.
Female. Upper-side paler. Fore-wing with slightly broader outer band. Hind-wing with a moderately broad outer band. Underside similar to the male.
— Charles Swinhoe, Lepidoptera Indica. Vol. VII^[5]

Subspecies and distribution

Subspecies are:^[2]

E. a. andersoni (Moore, 1886) Peninsular Malaya, Langkawi, Singapore, Sumatra, Borneo, Thailand and Indo-China
E. a. godana (Fruhstorfer, 1910) Taiwan
E. a. udana (Fruhstorfer, 1910) West Java
E. a. ormistoni (Watkins, 1925) South India
E. a. anamba (Corbet & Pendlebury, 1932) Anambas
E. a. evansi (Corbet & Pendlebury, 1932) Andaman
E. a. jordani (Corbet & Pendlebury, 1932) Sikkim and Bhutan
E. a. konoyi (Morishita, 1973) Palawan
E. a. nishiyamai (Shirôzu & Yata, 1981) Nias Island
E. a. kashiwaii (Shirôzu & Yata, 1981) Sumba Island
E. a. sadanobui (Shirôzu & Yata, 1982) Thailand, Laos, Cambodia, southern Vietnam, and southern Yunnan
E. a. albida (Shirôzu & Yata, 1982) Borneo (Sarawak)
E. a. shimai (Yata & Gaonkar, 1999) southern India^[6]

Life cycle

The larvae have been recorded on Ventilago goughii.^[7]

References

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^ ^a ^b Varshney, R.K.; Smetacek, Peter (2015). A Synoptic Catalogue of the Butterflies of India. New Delhi: Butterfly Research Centre, Bhimtal & Indinov Publishing, New Delhi. p. 68. doi:10.13140/RG.2.1.3966.2164. ISBN 978-81-929826-4-9.
^ ^a ^b Savela, Markku. "Eurema andersoni (Moore, 1886)". Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms. Retrieved July 1, 2018.
^ Yata, Osamu (1991). "A Revision of the Old World Species of the Genus Eurema Hubner (Lepidoptera, Pieridae)" (PDF). Bull. Kitakyushu Mas. Nat. Hisl. 10 (7): 26–38. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2018-04-20. Retrieved 2018-04-19.
^ One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain: Bingham, C.T. (1907). The Fauna of British India, Including Ceylon and Burma. Vol. II (1st ed.). London: Taylor and Francis, Ltd. pp. 254–255.
^ ^a ^b One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain: Swinhoe, Charles (1905–1910). Lepidoptera Indica. Vol. VII. London: Lovell Reeve and Co. p. 71.
^ Yata, O.; Gaonkar, H. (1999). "A New Subspecies of Eurema andersonii (Lepidoptera: Pieridae) from South India" (PDF). Entomological Science. 2 (2): 281–285.
^ Ravikanthachari Nitin; V.C. Balakrishnan; Paresh V. Churi; S. Kalesh; Satya Prakash; Krushnamegh Kunte (2018-04-10). "Larval host plants of the buterfies of the Western Ghats, India". Journal of Threatened Taxa. 10 (4): 11524. doi:10.11609/jott.3104.10.4.11495-11550 – via JoTT.

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