Matapa aria

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Common Redeye
File:Common redeye.jpg
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M. aria
Binomial name
Matapa aria
(Moore, 1865)[1]
Synonyms
  • Ismene aria Moore, [1866]
  • Hesperia neglecta Mabille, 1876

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

Description

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File:Common Redeye (Matapa aria) I IMG 9644.jpg
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

  1. Matapa at funet.fi
  2. Watson, E. Y. (1891) Hesperiidae indicae. Vest and Co. Madras.
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