Painted sawtooth

(Prioneris sita)

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Description

Upperside: White with a slight greenish tint.Forewings and hindwings: The markings of the underside faintly visible through the wing. Underside: Forewing: White,costa black and the apex suffuse with yellow.Hindwing: Rich chrome yellow up to a postdiscal band.Beyond this the ground color is white with a series of large terminal vermillion-red spots.These spots are rectangular or truncated cone shaped. The antennae is brownish black.Head and thorax are covered with long bluish-grey hairs.The abdomen is greyish white.

Taxonomic tree:

Domain:
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum:
Class: Insecta
Order:Lepidoptera
Family:Pieridae
Genus:Prioneris
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