Ixias is a genus of pierid

Pieridae

The Pieridae are a large family of butterflies with about 76 genera containing approximately 1,100 species, mostly from tropical Africa and Asia. Most pierid butterflies are white, yellow or orange in coloration, often with black spots...

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Butterfly

A butterfly is a mainly day-flying insect of the order Lepidoptera, which includes the butterflies and moths. Like other holometabolous insects, the butterfly's life cycle consists of four parts: egg, larva, pupa and adult. Most species are diurnal. Butterflies have large, often brightly coloured...

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Field Characteristics

Wingspan : 50-55 mm. The upperside of the wings of the Yellow Orange Tip is Yellow.

Status,Distribution and Habitat

It is restricted to Sri Lanka and peninsular India and distributed throughout the plains and lowlands. It is common in dry deciduous forests, scrub and fallow lands and found throughout the year. However, it is more common during the monsoon and post-monsoon and considerably rare in the summer.

Species

• Ixias flavipennis Grose-Smith, 1885
• Ixias kuehni Röber, 1891
• Ixias malumsinicum Thieme, 1897
• Ixias marianne
  Ixias marianne
  Ixias marianne, commonly known as the white orange tip, is a small butterfly of the family Pieridae, found in India and Sri Lanka.-Description:...
  
  (Cramer, 1779)
• Ixias paluensis Martin, 1914
• Ixias piepersii (Snellen, 1877)
• Ixias pyrene
  Ixias pyrene
  Yellow Orange Tip , Ixias pyrene is a small butterfly of the Family Pieridae, that is, the Yellows and Whites, which is found in India.-Description:Dry-season brood. Male upperside: deep sulphur-yellow...
  
  (Linnaeus, 1764)
• Ixias reinwardtii (van Vollenhoven, 1860)
• Ixias venilia (Godart, 1819)
• Ixias vollenhovii (Wallace, 1867)
• Ixias weelei (van Eecke, 1912)