Sahyadri Orange Ace

 Thoressa honorei (de Nicéville, 1887)


Malayalam Name

:

സഹ്യാദ്രി ശരവേഗൻ

Order

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Lepidoptera

Family

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Hesperiidae

Sub-family

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Hesperiinae

Sub species

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 Thoressa honorei

common names

:

Sahyadri Orange Ace

DISTRIBUTION: Species seen in Western Ghats

STATUS: Endemic to Western Ghats

HABITAT: .

HABITS

IDENTIFICATION FEATURES

Female. Upperside; both wings fuscous. Forewing with the base clothed with yellow hair-like scales, more or less forming streaks between the veins; a large rhomboidal spot at the outer end of the discoidal cell, two elongated ones, the upper twice the size of the lower, in the median interspaces, two or three subapical conjugated increasing spots, all semitransparent glistening yellow. Hindwing with all but the costal margin as far as the second subcostal nervule, and the outer margin somewhat narrowly, and the abdominal margin, clothed with long yellow setae; a large discal yellow patch beyond the cell divided by the dark nervules and enclosing a blackish dot in the second median interspace. Underside: forewing black all except the costal margin increasingly, the apex widely and the outer margin decreasingly, which are yellowish-ochreous; the semi-transparent spots as above, with two additional somewhat diffused opaque spots placed one above the other near the. middle of the submedian interspace, which appear in a somewhat constricted form on the upperside of one specimen. Hindwing yellowish-ochreous throughout; a black spot at the end of the cell and about six between the veins outside the cell; some obscure submarginal blackish spots; the abdominal margin and a streak in the submedian interspace black.

SIMILAR SPECIES

LARVAL HOST PLANTS

Ochlandra talbotii, Ochlandra travancorica (Poaceae)..

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