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Castalius rosimon (The pierrot butterfly)

Synonyms: Castalius naxus; Papilio coridon (heterotypic); Papilio maimon; Papilio rosimon

Wikipedia Abstract

The common Pierrot (Castalius rosimon) is a small butterfly found in South Asia that belongs to the lycaenids, or blues family.
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Infraspecies

Castalius rosimon adoniram
Castalius rosimon alarbus
Castalius rosimon baghavus
Castalius rosimon catrionus
Castalius rosimon godarti
Castalius rosimon rosimon
Castalius rosimon silas
Castalius rosimon sostrus

Prey / Diet

Ziziphus jujuba (common jujube)[1]
Ziziphus mauritiana (Indian jujube)[2]

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics.
♦ 2HOSTS - a Database of the World's Lepidopteran Hostplants Gaden S. Robinson, Phillip R. Ackery, Ian J. Kitching, George W. Beccaloni AND Luis M. Hernández
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Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0