A male Appias libythea taking nectar from lantana camara plant

Physical Description Of  Male Appias Libythea Underside:

The underside of male Appias libythea is white with having some black stripped. In some colour variation the black stripped may not seen properly. The fore wings costal and outer edge is slightly blackish. The base of costa having a few numbers of greyish-black scales. Both male and female contain prominent yellow spot near the basal which start from fore-wing to towards hind-wing  . Hindwing unmarked.

A male Appias libythea attacked by lynx spider

Physical Description Of Male Appias libythea Upperside:

 From the upperside of male Appias libythea is greyish white. The costal edge of forewings are black. The basal costal border scale is grey-black. From the subcostal to the submedian a black narrow exterior marginal dentated baud decreased.
Hindwings also greyish white with very small indistinct blackish-scaled marginal vein-point, which are obsolete in some specimens that probably near the dry season.





A female Appias libythea taking nectar from Lantana camara plant 
Physical Description Of Female Appias libyythea Underside:

The underside of female Appias libythea is white from both wings with dark-grey similar disposed marking.
Forewing contain the outer band traversed by interspaced streak. This band is  white and it's inner edge only defined by dark grey. The outer band is very faintly indicated by the greyish inner edge. The apical area being entirely white or very faintly tinged with pale yellow.
 But the stripped shaped is similar to male.
The under hind wings of Appias libythea has a outer marginal macular band which is indistinct or obsolescent. The base of costa is pale yellow. The ground colour is either white or very faintly tinged with pale yellow. The discal fascia being faintly indicated but the marginal spots absent.
 Some intermediate specimens of this sex which agree with the Fabrician type specimens of Lihythea emerged probably near the dry season. 
In the forewing the connecting black streak along the upper-median to the outer band and also the lower basal fascia. The marginal spots are smaller and more or less well separated. The discal fascia with it's connecting veins is also obsolescent or more generally entirely absent. On the underside marking are much less defined.


A female Appias libythae taking nectar from Lantana Camara plant

Physical Description Of Appias Libythae Female Upperside:

The female Appias libytheas upperside is also greyish white as like the male. But their widely dominated yellowish colour separate from the male butterfly.
The forewing of Appias libythaes costal edge is greyish black. A broad longitudinal band from base of the costa and filling up the cell with the exception of a thin streak above the median vein. This black cell-band more or less thinly extends alongthe upper median veinlet and joins a broad outer marginal decreasing band extending sinuously from before the apex to posterior angle. Enclosing sub-apical oblique quadrate patch colour is white. The outer band showing faint traces of paler intervening streaks.  




Mating pair of Stripped albatross

Mating Period Of Appias libythea Butterfly:

The mating system of Euarthropoda phylum is different from any other animals. Their companion finding system happens chemically. The female Euarthropoda spread pheromone in nature and the male find their own female species by the helps of their anatanea contention. The male can get the signal from 3km less or more. Thus they find their specimen. If the female accept the male they go on a short courtship flight. They may remain couple for an hour or more, sometimes overnight. The male passes a sperm packet to the female called spermatorphore. The sperm then fertilize each egg as it passes down the females egg-laying tube.




 Bio-data of Stripped Albatross-

 Wingspan- 50-60mm.
Genus: Appias Hübner, 1819
Species: libythea Fabricius, 1775
Subspecies: olferna Swinhoe, 1890
Wingspan of Adult Butterfly: 55mm
Caterpillar Local Host Plants: Cleome rutidosperma (Capparaceae, common name: Purple Cleome, Fringed Spiderflower), Ceataeva magna (Capparaceae).