Odontoptilum angulatum

Chestnut/Banded Angle
Photographed at Maredumilli Reserve, Rajahmundry, Andhra Pradesh, during August 2007
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Hesperiidae
Genus: Odontoptilum
Species: O. angulata
Binomial name
Odontoptilum angulata
(Felder, 1862)
Synonyms

Achlyodes sura Moore [1]

Odontoptilum angulata, commonly known as the Chestnut/Banded Angle, is a butterfly belonging to the family Hesperiidae and is found in Asia.

Description

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Male and female vinaceous-brown, palest on the hindwing. Male, forewing dull chestnut-brown along exterior margin, with a black transverse band one-third from the base ; a geminated semi-transparent spot on costa before the apex, surrounded by suffused black ; a semi-transparent lunule and a small spot on the lower part of the disc, bordered without by a black band : hindwing with a transverse subbasal, an elbowed discal, and a lower submarginal purplish-white line ; apex of wing with suffused black patch and lower marginal blackish pale-bordered spots. Underside brown, forewing suffused with greyish-white at the base ; markings as above : hindwing greyish-white, the transverse lines less denned, marginal spots blacker, and a blackish spot near base of wing. Palpi above black. Palpi and body beneath and legs greyish-white. Female paler, marked on upper-and undersides as in male.

E Y Watson[2]

References

  1. Moore, 1865 P. Z. S.:p. 786.
  2. Watson, E. Y. 1891. Hesperiidae Indicae. Vest & Co., Madras.

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