Project butterfly Mankulam Division

Thoressa sitala  (de Nicéville, 1885) Mal ayalam Name : Order : Lepidopte ra Family : Hesperiidae Sub-family : Hesperiinae Sub species : Thoressa evershedi common names : Tamil Ace / Nilgiri Plain Ace DISTRIBUTION: South India STATUS : Endemic to Western Ghats and Eastern Ghats HABITAT:  .  HABITS IDENTIFICATION  FEATURES Male. Upperside blackish-brown, much the same colour as in H. sitala. Forewing with the spots similarly placed, but a little smaller. Cilia grey, with brown patches. Hindwing without markings, uniformly coloured. Cilia grey, without the patches. Underside. Forewing paler brown, the costal and apical areas suffused with ochreous-red, the spots as on the upperside. Hindwing ochreous-red, the abdominal half of the wing and the costa (narrowly) suffused with brown, the outer margin with a brownish macular band and with indications of some brownish discal spots. Antennae black, ringed with white, apical half of club orange-red, the lower half of the clu...

  Thoressa evershedi   (Evans, 1910)   Mal ayalam Name : Order : Lepidopte ra Family : Hesperiidae Sub-family : Hesperiinae Sub species : Thoressa evershedi common names : Evershed's Ace / Travancore Tawny Ace DISTRIBUTION: South India STATUS: Endemic to Western Ghats and Eastern Ghats HABITAT:  .  HABITS IDENTIFICATION  FEATURES Male. Upperside blackish-brown, much the same colour as in H. sitala. Forewing with the spots similarly placed, but a little smaller. Cilia grey, with brown patches. Hindwing without markings, uniformly coloured. Cilia grey, without the patches. Underside. Forewing paler brown, the costal and apical areas suffused with ochreous-red, the spots as on the upperside. Hindwing ochreous-red, the abdominal half of the wing and the costa (narrowly) suffused with brown, the outer margin with a brownish macular band and with indications of some brownish discal spots. Antennae black, ringed with white, apical half of club orange-red, the low...

 Nilgiri Plain Ace/Tamil Ace Thoressa sitala

Hyarotis coorga  Evans, 1949                   Mal ayalam Name :   Order : Lepidopte ra Fam ily : Hesperiidae Sub-family : Hesperiinae Sub species : Hyarotis coorga common names : Kodagu Brush Flitter/ Coorg Bush Flitter DISTRIBUTION Western Ghats STATUS: Endemic to Western Ghats and reported from Coorg only HABITAT:  .  SIMILAR SPECIES LARVAL HOST PLANTS MORE IMAGES   Courtesy  Write up:Wikipaedia Images: TNHS & iFoundbutterfly.org കേരള വനം വന്യജീവി വകുപ്പ്   മാങ്കുളം ഡിവിഷൻ

Caltoris canaraica  (Moore, [1884]) Mal ayalam Name : കാനറ ശരശലഭം Order : Lepidopte ra Family : Hesperiidae Sub-family : Hesperiinae Sub species :  Caltoris canaraica   common names : Kanara Swift/ Karwar Swift DISTRIBUTION: Species distributed in South India STATUS: HABITAT:  .  HABITS IDENTIFICATION  FEATURES Male and Female. Upperside dark brown, basal area olive-brown. Male: Forewing with two small oval semi-diaphanous white spots at the end of the cell, three spots obliquely before the apex, and three on the disk; hindwing without makings ; cilia brownish-cinereous. Under side paler brown, irrorated with ochreous scales which are thickly disposed along the costa and apex of forewing and across discal area of hindwing: forewing marked as above, also with a small whitish spot above hind margin: hindwing with two discal white spots. Female: forewing with larger spots than in the male, also with a minute dot beneath the lower discal spot and a triangular...