Dakhan Tricolor Pied Flat

Coladenia indrani indra Evans, 1926 


Malayalam Name

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വർണ്ണപ്പരപ്പൻ

Order

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Lepidoptera

Family

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Hesperiidae

Sub-family

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Prginae

Sub species

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 Coladenia indrani indra

common names

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Dakhan Tricolor Pied Flat

DISTRIBUTION India, Sri Lanka and Myanmar

STATUS:

HABITAT: . 


HABITS

IDENTIFICATION  FEATURES

Upperside bright golden-yellow: forewing with a discal series of four semi-transparent white black-bordered spots, the first small and above the extremity of the cell, the second large quadrate and within the cell, the third elongate and beneath the latter, the fourth exterior to their juncture: beneath these is a pale golden -yellow black- bordered spot: before the apex is a series of four similar white spots with black border, the three upper of which are conjugated; a well-defined black spot beneath the cell near the base; exterior margin and cilia blackish, the latter white at the posterior angle: hindwing with a semi-circular submarginal series of black spots and two similar inner discal spots; exterior margin black; cilia alternate black and white. Underside blackish-brown suffused with golden-yellow, brightest on the hindwing: markings as above but more clearly defined. Tip of palpi black: thorax, body, palpi (except tip), and legs yellow- Antennae yellow, tip black.

SIMILAR SPECIES


LARVAL HOST PLANTS

Bixa orellana (Bixaceae). Terminalia elliptica (Combretaceae). Mallotus philippensis (Euphorbiaceae). Bauhinia racemosa, Butea monosperma, Dalbergia latifolia, Dendrolobium triangulare, Desmodium, Microcos paniculata, Xylia xylocarpa (Fabaceae). Grewia tiliifolia, Hibiscus tilliaceus (=Talipariti tiliaceum), Pterospermum acerifolium, Sterculia guttata, Sterculia urens (=Kavalama urens), Thespesia populnea, Triumfetta rhomboidea (Malvaceae). Bridelia retusa, Bridelia stipularis (=Bridelia scandens) (Phyllanthaceae). Schleichera oleosa (Sapindaceae).

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Write up:Wikipaedia
Images: TNHS & iFoundbutterfly.org

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