Matapa aria

Common Redeye
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Hesperiidae
Genus: Matapa
Species: M. aria
Binomial name
Matapa aria
(Moore, 1865)[1]
Synonyms
  • Ismene aria Moore, [1866]
  • Hesperia neglecta Mabille, 1876

Matapa aria, commonly known as the Common Redeye, is a butterfly belonging to the family Hesperiidae.

Description

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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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  1. ↑ Matapa at funet.fi
  2. ↑ Watson, E. Y. (1891) Hesperiidae indicae. Vest and Co. Madras.
  3. ↑ 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". J. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc. 104 (2): 235–238.
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