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Dinu Mysore, India(Zone 10a) Oct 27, 2007

Wings closed, it looks different. Top view is like this when they are open. Which is this?

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Dinu Mysore, India(Zone 10a) Oct 28, 2007

When it folds its wings, it looks like this - siting under a twig.

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Dinu Mysore, India(Zone 10a) Sep 21, 2009

Which could be this?

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wren107 Jacksonville, FL(Zone 8b) Sep 23, 2009

sorry can not find it but Amazon.com has a book on Butterflies of India, maybe that could help you

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Dinu Mysore, India(Zone 10a) Sep 23, 2009

Thanks for the clue. There is also a recent book that my friend said was released recently. I think I should get it.

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amitray Kolkata, India Oct 06, 2009

You may want to buy The Book of Indian Butterflies by Isaac Kehimkar, publisher Bombay Natural History Society. It is an excellent book illustrating and describing more than 700 species of butterflies found in India. It is available from Flipkart.com
http://www.flipkart.com/book-indian-butterflies-isaac-kehimkar/0195696204-dqw3f4hdod

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suunto Sinks Grove, WV Oct 07, 2009

This butterfly is in the family Nymphalidae, a rather large family with nearly 500 species reported from India. It may be in the genus Precis - see http://tinyurl.com/ya9eeq6 for an example.

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Dinu Mysore, India(Zone 10a) Oct 19, 2009

suunto, Yes it is resembling the one in the link for most things and I'll go for it. The one in the link is found in our neighbouring state of Kerala. The specimen I have found seems to be a female.

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