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Tawny Coster

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Acraea terpsicore (Linnaeus, 1758)  തീച്ചിറകൻ Malayalam Name  : തീച്ചിറകൻ Family  : Nyphalidae Sub-family              : Heliconidae Tribe                      :  Leptociaini Order : Lepidoptera DIST RIBUTION                    Species found in South Asia, South East Asia and Australia.  STATUS:    No HABITAT The HABITS T ts IDENTIFICATION  FEATURES Small size Black and tawny orange butterfly with wingspan 53-64 mm. Upperside   tawny. Forewing: a transverse black spot in cell, and another irregular, oblique and broader at the discocellulars; a discal series of spots in interspaces 1, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 10, and the apex and termen black. The upper four spots of the discal series inclined obliquely outwards, the lower two obliquely inwards; the black edging to apex and termen narrowing...