Unbranded Ace

Thoressa astigmata (Swinhoe, 1890)


Malayalam Name

:

തെക്കൻ കാട്ടു ശരവേഗൻ

Order

:

Lepidoptera

Family

:

Hesperiidae

Sub-family

:

Hesperiinae

Sub species

:

Thoressa astigmata

common names

:

Unbranded Ace /Southern Spotted 

DISTRIBUTION: Species seen in Western Ghats

STATUS: Endemic to Western Ghats

HABITAT: .

HABITS

IDENTIFICATION FEATURES

Male. Upperside blackish-brown. Forewing with some dull ochreous hairs on the basal portion and seven semi-hyaline white spots; three small ones, subapical, in a curve, the uppermost spot very minute; two larger conjoined spots across the cell towards its end; two discal spots, one in each of the median interspaces, near their bases, the lower one usually double the size of the other and quadrate. Hindwing mostly covered with dull ochreous hairs, but without any markings. Cilia of forewing brown, becoming pale towards the anal angle of the hiudwing, whitish with grey marks opposite the vein ends. Underside as dark as it is on the upperside. Forewing with spots as above, and a very indistinct series of sub-marginal spots from the apex becoming quite obsolete hindwards. Hindwing with a rounded series of six or seven white dots in the upper disc and a double whitish mark above the anal angle. Antennae black spotted with white on the underside, the club white beneath, tip red, palpi, head and body blackish-brown, palpi beneath and pectus greyish, legs dull ferruginous.

Female like the male.

SIMILAR SPECIES

LARVAL HOST PLANTS

Ochlandra talbotii, Ochlandra travancorica (Poaceae)..

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