Oriental Giant Redeye

Gangara thyrsis thyrsis (Fabricius, 1775) 



Malayalam Name

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വൻ ചെങ്കണ്ണി

Order

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Lepidoptera

Family

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Hesperiidae

Sub-family

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Hesperrinae

Sub species

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Gangara thyrsis thyrsis

common names

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Oriental Giant Redeye

DISTRIBUTION India & Sri Lanka

STATUS: Common

HABITAT: . 


HABITS


IDENTIFICATION  FEATURES


The wingspan is 65–70 mm.
The male and female are dark chocolate brown. With a forewing consisting of bright yellow semi-transparent quadrate spots disposed triangularly, the first is large and occupying half the cell, the second also large, obliquely beneath and partly beyond, the third small and obliquely above the second; above the last are three smaller spots obliquely before the apex, the two upper being geminated; in some specimens beneath the subapical spots is a small dot, and on the posterior margin another, both similar to the rest; cilia at posterior angle brownish-white; hindwing with the cilia at the anterior angle brownish white. Underside, forewing irrorated (sprinkled) with grey scales near the apex, posterior margin pale brownish-white, spots yellow as above; hindwing irrorated with grey scales in a series of bands across the wing

SIMILAR SPECIES

LARVAL HOST PLANTS

Cocos nucifera, Calamus pseudotenuis, Calamus rotang, Calamus thwaitesii, Phoenix loureirii, Licuala chinensis and Phoenix humilis. Zingiber officinale etc. Palms and Rattans

LIFE CYCLE




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