page_title: Prioneris sita
section_title: Description
hierarchical_section_title: Prioneris sita / Description
caption_attribution_description: Painted Sawtooths (Prioneris sita) mudpuddling.
context_page_description: Prioneris sita, the painted sawtooth, is a small butterfly of the family Pieridae, that is, the yellows and whites, which is found in south India and Sri Lanka.
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  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.
  Wingspan: 86–90 mm (3.40-3.55 in).
caption: Painted sawtooth mud-puddling. The species it mimics, the common Jezebel, is never found mud-puddling
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