Project butterfly Mankulam Division

Thoressa astigmata (Swinhoe, 1890) Mal ayalam Name : തെക്കൻ കാട്ടു ശരവേഗൻ Order : Lepidopte ra Family : Hesperiidae Sub-family : Hesperiinae Sub species : Thoressa astigmata common names : Unbranded Ace /Southern Spotted  DISTRIBUTION : Species seen in Western Ghats STATUS: Endemic to Western Ghats HABITAT: . HABITS IDENTIFICATION FEATURES Male. Upperside blackish-brown. Forewing with some dull ochreous hairs on the basal portion and seven semi-hyaline white spots; three small ones, subapical, in a curve, the uppermost spot very minute; two larger conjoined spots across the cell towards its end; two discal spots, one in each of the median interspaces, near their bases, the lower one usually double the size of the other and quadrate. Hindwing mostly covered with dull ochreous hairs, but without any markings. Cilia of forewing brown, becoming pale towards the anal angle of the hiudwing, whitish with grey marks opposite the vein ends. Underside as dark as it is on the upperside. For...

Halpe hindu Evans, 1937  Mal ayalam Name : മഞ്ഞവരയൻ ശരവേഗൻ Order : Lepidopte ra Family : Hesperiidae Sub-family : Hesperiinae Sub species : Halpe hindu common names : Sahyadri Banded Ace / Indian Ace DISTRIBUTION: Western Ghats of India STATUS: It is endemic to Western Ghats HABITAT:  .  HABITS IDENTIFICATION  FEATURES Male. Upperside blackish-brown. Forewing with five or six semi-hyaline spots, one or the other of them often absent, one inside the upper end of the cell, two obliquely, in the disc, near the bases of the median interspaces, these spots are sometimes quadrate, sometimes oblong, and sometimes quite round and small, and two small sub-apical spots, sometimes a third minute spot close to the costa; in some examples (perara) all the spots are absent, except the two discal spots which are small and round, but the genitalia of all of them are said to be alike, showing them to be of one variable species. Hindwing without markings. Cilia chequered brown and o...

Salanoemia sala (Hewitson, [1866]) Mal ayalam Name : ചൂരൽ കുറുമ്പൻ Order : Lepidopte ra Family : Hesperiidae Sub-family : Hesperiinae Sub species : Salanoemia sala common names : Maculate Lancer DISTRIBUTION: Western Ghats of India STATUS: Endemic to Western Ghats IDENTIFICATION FEATURES Upperside dark brown. Anterior wing with four transparent spots; two in the cell minute. Underside grey. Anterior wing dark brown near the base; with three minute brown spots before the apex. Posterior wing with a spot near the middle forming the centre of a circle of several similar brown spots. Female, wings above vandyke-brown with a very faint vinaceous tinge. Anterior wings with four semi-transparent white lustrous spots all close together in middle of the disk, two in the cell, the posterior of which is double the size of the anterior, which is the smallest of all, another immediately behind and in the same straight line the largest of all, being fully double the size of the posterior of the two...

 Thoressa honorei (de Nicéville, 1887) Mal ayalam Name : സഹ്യാദ്രി ശരവേഗൻ Order : Lepidopte ra Family : Hesperiidae Sub-family : Hesperiinae Sub species :  Thoressa honorei common names : Sahyadri Orange Ace DISTRIBUTION : Species seen in Western Ghats STATUS:  Endemic to Western Ghats HABITAT:  . HABITS IDENTIFICATION FEATURES Female. Upperside; both wings fuscous. Forewing with the base clothed with yellow hair-like scales, more or less forming streaks between the veins; a large rhomboidal spot at the outer end of the discoidal cell, two elongated ones, the upper twice the size of the lower, in the median interspaces, two or three subapical conjugated increasing spots, all semitransparent glistening yellow. Hindwing with all but the costal margin as far as the second subcostal nervule , and the outer margin somewhat narrowly, and the abdominal margin, clothed with long yellow setae; a large discal yellow patch beyond the cell divided by the dark nervules and encl...