Red Pierrot

Red Pierrot
Talicada nyseus

Delhi, October 2008 Aligarh, December 2008

Not the best photographs but the butterfly is still striking and unmistakable. The Red Pierrot's distribution in India is supposed to be split between Peninsular India (south of Mumbai) and the North-East (east of Orissa). It is not included in the Delhi checklist of Torben Larsen (2002). Yet in the last few years it has been visible for most of the year in south Delhi. In the 2008 monsoon I first started seeing it in North Delhi and it has since been quite common here also.

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Last modified: Feb 10 2009


Delhi, October 2008	Aligarh, December 2008
Not the best photographs but the butterfly is still striking and unmistakable. The Red Pierrot's distribution in India is supposed to be split between Peninsular India (south of Mumbai) and the North-East (east of Orissa). It is not included in the Delhi checklist of Torben Larsen (2002). Yet in the last few years it has been visible for most of the year in south Delhi. In the 2008 monsoon I first started seeing it in North Delhi and it has since been quite common here also.