Bispot Banded Ace
Halpe porus (Mabille, [1877]) Mal ayalam Name : വെള്ളവരയൻ ശരവേഗൻ Order : Lepidopte ra Family : Hesperiidae Sub-family : Pyrginae Sub species : Halpe porus common names : Bispot Banded Ace/Moore's Ace DISTRIBUTION India STATUS: Common HABITAT: . HABITS IDENTIFICATION FEATURES Male. Upperside blackish-brown. Forewing with seven semi-hyaline spots; two within the cell towards its end, one above the other, one a little larger close to the base of the first median interspace, and a similar spot obliquely above it, near the base of the second median interspace, three small sub-apical spots in an outwardly oblique curve. Hindwing with a small, slightly suffused space, slightly yellow-tinted in the upper middle of the wing, otherwise without markings SIMILAR SPECIES LARVAL HOST PLANTS Bambusa tuldoides, Bambusa vulgaris (=Bambusa striata), Ochlandra scriptoria (Poaceae). MORE IMAGES Courtesy Write up:Wikipaedia Images: TNHS & iFoundbutterfly.org കേരള വന...