Yellow Costor butterfly in India

The Yellow Coster, Acraea issoria, is a small, leathery-winged butterfly. This species of the subgenus (Actinote) and the Tawny Coster (Acraea (Acraea) terpsicore) with its sister species (A. (A.) moluccana) and (A. (A.)meyeri) of the nominotypical subgenus, are the only Asiatic representatives of the predominantly African sub-family Acraeinae.

According to Talbot (Fauna of British India) the race anomala is found in the western Himalayas while the nominate form is from the eastern Himalayas.

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