Project butterfly Mankulam Division

  Abaratha alida vespa   (Evans, 1949) Mal ayalam Name : പുള്ളി പരപ്പൻ Order : Lepidopte ra Family : Hesperiidae Sub-family : Pyrginae Sub species : Abaratha alida vespa common names : Dakhan Alida Angle DISTRIBUTION : Species distributed in Africa and Asia. STATUS: HABITAT: . HABITS IDENTIFICATION FEATURES Male. Upper.side ochreous-brown. Forewing with five sub-apical white spots, the three from near the costa in an outwardly oblique straight line, the two lower ones minute, sometimes absent; a small round dot within the cell before its middle, a spot within the outer end, highly excavated on its outer side, its upper half merely a short curved streak, a round spot in the middle of the first median interspace, a round dot outside towards the base of the second median interspace, a minute dot immediately below the lower spot and a small round spot inwardly below it, both in the interno-median interspace, a very minute dot close to the costa at its middle, all the spots and d...

Gomalia elma   (Trimen, 1862) - African Marbled Skipper Mal ayalam Name : ഊരൻ ചാടൻ Order : Lepidopte ra Family : Hesperiidae Sub-family : Pyrginae Sub species :  Gomalia elma albofasciata common names : Asian Marbled Skipper DISTRIBUTION: Species distributed in Africa and Asia. STATUS: HABITAT:  .  HABITS IDENTIFICATION  FEATURES Male. Upperside with the ground colour brownish-olive-grey. Forewing with a basal blackish-brown band, and an ante-medial darker band, the latter with its outer margin limited by a black thick line which extends from the sub-costal vein in an outward curve to the sub-median vein, its portion crossing the cell edged outwardly by a white lunular mark which closes the end of the cell, a white spot at the base of the second median interspace and another inwards below^ almost touching it, in the first median interspace, a large square blackish-brown patch on the costa limited outwardly by three sub-apical conjoined white spots, a similar b...