Kingdom Animalia Class Insecta Family Pieridae Rank Species | Phylum Arthropoda Order Lepidoptera Genus Catopsilia | |
Similar Eurema floricola, Heteropsis narcissus, Catopsilia florella, Coeliades forestan, Catopsilia scylla |
Catopsilia thauruma, the Madagascar migrant, is a butterfly in the Pieridae family. It is found in the Indian Ocean on Madagascar, Mauritius and RĂ©union. The habitat consists of forest margins and anthropogenic environments.
The larvae feed on Cassia siamea.
References
Catopsilia thauruma Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA