Common Branded Red Eye
Matapa aria (Moore, [1866]) Mal ayalam Name : നാട്ടുചെങ്കണ്ണി Order : Lepidopte ra Family : Hesperiidae Sub-family : Hesperrinae Sub species : Matapa aria common names : Common Branded Red Eye DISTRIBUTION India & Southeast Asia STATUS: HABITAT: . HABITS IDENTIFICATION FEATURES Male.Red eye with pupil.Upperside, pale brown; forewing with a short impressed comma-like grey streak obliquely beneath the cell. Cilia yellowish white. Underside bright ferruginous brown. Palpi ferruginous brown. Female. Upperside dark chocolate brown without the impressed streak; cilia of hindwing pale orange yellow. SIMILAR SPECIES LARVAL HOST PLANTS Bambusa spp., Bambusa bambos (=Bambusa arundinacea), Bambusa vulgaris (=Bambusa striata), Dendrocalamus strictus, Dinochloa andamanica, Ochlandra scriptoria, Ochlandra talbotii, Ochlandra travancorica , Oxytenanthera spp., Schizostachyum spp. (Poaceae). MORE IMAGES Female,(Orange cilia on hindwing) Male (White bar ...