Matapa aria
| Common redeye | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Hesperiidae |
| Genus: | Matapa |
| Species: | M. aria |
| Binomial name | |
| Matapa aria (Moore, 1865)[1] | |
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Matapa aria, the common redeye, is a butterfly belonging to the family Hesperiidae.
Description
For a key to the terms used, see Glossary of entomology terms.
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At Narenderpur near Kolkata, India
Male and female chocolate brown.
Male. Upperside, pale brown; forewing with a short impressed comma-like grey streak obliquely beneath the cell. Cilia yellowish white. Underside bright ferruginous brown. Palpi ferruginous brown.
Female. Upperside dark chocolate brown without the impressed streak; cilia of hindwing pale orange yellow. Underside bright ferruginous brown.[2]
The larvae feed on Bambusa striata, Ochlandra travancorica and Ochlandra scriptoria.[3]
References
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- ↑ Matapa at funet.fi
- ↑ Watson, E. Y. (1891) Hesperiidae indicae. Vest and Co. Madras.
- ↑ Kalesh, S & S K Prakash (2007). "Additions of the larval host plants of butterflies of the Western Ghats, Kerala, Southern India (Rhopalocera, Lepidoptera): Part 1". Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society. 104 (2): 235–238.
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