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...

  Sarangesa purendra pandra   Evans, 1949 Mal ayalam Name : പാറപ്പരപ്പൻ Order : Lepidopte ra Family : Hesperiidae Sub-family : Pyrginae Sub species : Sarangesa dasahara davidsoni  common names : Hill Spotted Small Flat DISTRIBUTION India STATUS: HABITAT:  .  The spotted small flat ( Sarangesa purendra ), though, is more common in the arid regions. It occurs in openings and edges in both the evergreen and semi-evergreen forests, deciduous forests, and scrub & short grassland savannahs. It is found in the Deccan plains and also in the hills, but more frequently found at lower elevations. Except for the very dry north-west India, it occurs commonly throughout the country, in Sri Lanka and in the Indo-Chinese region HABITS IDENTIFICATION  FEATURES Upperside greyer than in S. dasahara, with paler mottled markings: fore wing with a semidiaphanous white continuous streak across the cell near its end, a continuous small spot above it, three small conjoined spo...

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...

Gerosis bhagava bhagava (Moore, [1866]) — Bengal Yellow-breasted Flat Mal ayalam Name : വെള്ളപ്പരപ്പൻ Order : Lepidopte ra Family : Hesperiidae Sub-family : Prginae Sub species :  Gerosis bhagava bhagava  common names : Bengal Yellow-breasted Flat D ISTRIBUTION Indo-Malayan Realm. STATUS: HABITAT:  .  HABITS IDENTIFICATION  FEATURES Upperside dark olive-brown : fore wing with a triangular series of three discal semitransparent white spots, the first being large and within the extremity of the cell, the second quadrate and beneath the first,the third exterior to their junction; beneath these are small black spots bordering a brownish-white streak from middle of posterior margin; a recurved series of small similar white spots before the apex : hindwing with a broad brownish-white sub-basal transverse band, bordered by a semicircular series of black spots, those exteriorly assuming the form of streaks between the veins. Abdomen with a white band Underside as above...