Project butterfly Mankulam Division

Thoressa sitala  (de Nicéville, 1885) Mal ayalam Name : Order : Lepidopte ra Family : Hesperiidae Sub-family : Hesperiinae Sub species : Thoressa evershedi common names : Tamil Ace / Nilgiri Plain Ace DISTRIBUTION: South India STATUS : Endemic to Western Ghats and Eastern Ghats HABITAT:  .  HABITS IDENTIFICATION  FEATURES Male. Upperside blackish-brown, much the same colour as in H. sitala. Forewing with the spots similarly placed, but a little smaller. Cilia grey, with brown patches. Hindwing without markings, uniformly coloured. Cilia grey, without the patches. Underside. Forewing paler brown, the costal and apical areas suffused with ochreous-red, the spots as on the upperside. Hindwing ochreous-red, the abdominal half of the wing and the costa (narrowly) suffused with brown, the outer margin with a brownish macular band and with indications of some brownish discal spots. Antennae black, ringed with white, apical half of club orange-red, the lower half of the clu...

  Thoressa evershedi   (Evans, 1910)   Mal ayalam Name : Order : Lepidopte ra Family : Hesperiidae Sub-family : Hesperiinae Sub species : Thoressa evershedi common names : Evershed's Ace / Travancore Tawny Ace DISTRIBUTION: South India STATUS: Endemic to Western Ghats and Eastern Ghats HABITAT:  .  HABITS IDENTIFICATION  FEATURES Male. Upperside blackish-brown, much the same colour as in H. sitala. Forewing with the spots similarly placed, but a little smaller. Cilia grey, with brown patches. Hindwing without markings, uniformly coloured. Cilia grey, without the patches. Underside. Forewing paler brown, the costal and apical areas suffused with ochreous-red, the spots as on the upperside. Hindwing ochreous-red, the abdominal half of the wing and the costa (narrowly) suffused with brown, the outer margin with a brownish macular band and with indications of some brownish discal spots. Antennae black, ringed with white, apical half of club orange-red, the low...

  Abaratha alida vespa   (Evans, 1949) Mal ayalam Name : പുള്ളി പരപ്പൻ Order : Lepidopte ra Family : Hesperiidae Sub-family : Pyrginae Sub species : Abaratha alida vespa common names : Dakhan Alida Angle DISTRIBUTION : Species distributed in Africa and Asia. STATUS: HABITAT: . HABITS IDENTIFICATION FEATURES Male. Upper.side ochreous-brown. Forewing with five sub-apical white spots, the three from near the costa in an outwardly oblique straight line, the two lower ones minute, sometimes absent; a small round dot within the cell before its middle, a spot within the outer end, highly excavated on its outer side, its upper half merely a short curved streak, a round spot in the middle of the first median interspace, a round dot outside towards the base of the second median interspace, a minute dot immediately below the lower spot and a small round spot inwardly below it, both in the interno-median interspace, a very minute dot close to the costa at its middle, all the spots and d...

  Sarangesa purendra pandra   Evans, 1949 Mal ayalam Name : പാറപ്പരപ്പൻ Order : Lepidopte ra Family : Hesperiidae Sub-family : Pyrginae Sub species : Sarangesa dasahara davidsoni  common names : Hill Spotted Small Flat DISTRIBUTION India STATUS: HABITAT:  .  The spotted small flat ( Sarangesa purendra ), though, is more common in the arid regions. It occurs in openings and edges in both the evergreen and semi-evergreen forests, deciduous forests, and scrub & short grassland savannahs. It is found in the Deccan plains and also in the hills, but more frequently found at lower elevations. Except for the very dry north-west India, it occurs commonly throughout the country, in Sri Lanka and in the Indo-Chinese region HABITS IDENTIFICATION  FEATURES Upperside greyer than in S. dasahara, with paler mottled markings: fore wing with a semidiaphanous white continuous streak across the cell near its end, a continuous small spot above it, three small conjoined spo...