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, the common redeye, is a butterfly belonging to the family Hesperiidae.

Description

For a key to the terms used, see Glossary of entomology terms.
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". Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society. 104 (2): 235–238.
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