Project butterfly Mankulam Division

Pelopidas subochracea subochracea (Moore, 1878)  Mal ayalam Name : ചോല ശരശലഭം Order : Lepidopte ra Family : Hesperiidae Sub-family : Hesperiinae Sub species :  Pelopidas subochracea subochracea  common names : Bengal Large Branded Swift DISTRIBUTION Indo-Malayan Realm. Sub species found in India STATUS: Common HABITAT:  HABITS IDENTIFICATION  FEATURES Upperside glossy luteous olive-brown; cilia yellowish-cinereous. Male. Forewing with two pale semi-diaphanous spots at end of the cell, three contiguous spots obliquely before the apex, three upper discal spots, below which is a narrow white oblique streak or brand; hindwing with three small yellow upper discal spots, the two lowest small. Female. Forewing with a lower or fourth discal spot, and a small dot below the third spot; the spots angled outward: hindwing as in male. Underside greenish-ochreous, brown on hind border of forewing and anal lobe; marginal line brown and prominent: forewing with the lower spot...

Pelopidas conjuncta narooa (Moore, 1878) Mal ayalam Name : ചോല ശരശലഭം Order : Lepidopte ra Family : Hesperiidae Sub-family : Hesperiinae Sub species : Pelopidas conjuncta narooa   common names : Sahyadri Conjoined Swift DISTRIBUTION Indo-Malayan Realm. Sub species found in South India and Sri Lanka STATUS: Common HABITAT:  HABITS IDENTIFICATION  FEATURES Male. Upperside dark olive-brown. Forewing with nine semi-diaphanous yellowish-white spots, two in the cell towards its end, one above the other, well separated, touching the margins of the cell; three small sub-apical spots of equal size, in an outwardly oblique well-curved line, the others in an inwardly oblique discal series, one in each interspace, the spot near the base of the first median interspace the largest of the series, its lower end produced outwards, the spot above it about half its size, with its outer lower end also somewhat produced, the upper small spot about the size of the sub-apical spots, a spot a...

Pelopidas mathias mathias (Fabricius, 1798) Mal ayalam Name : ചെറുവരയൻ ശരശലഭം Order : Lepidopte ra Family : Hesperiidae Sub-family : Hesperiinae Sub species : Pelopidas mathias mathias  common names :  Dakhan Small Branded Swif DISTRIBUTION Asia and Africa. Sub species found in India STATUS: Common. Pest of Rice HABITAT:  HABITS P. mathias is considered a pest to rice-growing cultures,Newly hatched caterpillars are especially voracious in eating young seedlings. They also use silken threads to roll up and stitch together partially eaten leaves for more efficient consumption IDENTIFICATION  FEATURES Male. Upperside olive brown: forewing with two small yellowish semi-transparent spots within end of cell, three before the apex, and in the male three oblique discal spots followed by a dark-bordered slender straight impressed glandular streak: hindwing with one or two very indistinct pale discal spots. Female with five discal spots in the forewing, and four or five in th...

Pelopidas agna agna (Moore, [1866]) Mal ayalam Name : ഇരുൾ വരയൻ ശരശലഭം Order : Lepidopte ra Family : Hesperiidae Sub-family : Hesperiinae Sub species : Pelopidas agna agna common names :  Bengal Obscure Branded Swift/Dark Banded Swift DISTRIBUTION India STATUS: HABITAT:  .  HABITS IDENTIFICATION  FEATURES Upperside glossy olive-brown; forewing with a series of six very small rather indistinct whitish semi-transparent spots curving from before the apex to the middle of the wing; beneath these is a short oblique pale impressed streak, which is suffused with black on its anterior margin. Cilia pale brown. Underside pale brown; spots on forewing as above but less defined; hindwing with a curved discal series of white dots and a single dot near the base. Palpi and body beneath pale brownish-yellow.The spots are much less prominent in the dry season form than wet season form. SIMILAR SPECIES LARVAL HOST PLANTS MORE IMAGES   Courtesy  Write up:Wikipaedia Images:...