Project butterfly Mankulam Division

 214 Tagiades japetus obscurus Mabille, 1877 — Dravidian Common Snow Flat Family; Hesperridae Sub family: Pyrginae Genus: Tagiades

Tagiades gana silvia Evans, 1934 Mal ayalam Name : Order : Lepidopte ra Family : Hesperiidae Sub-family : Pyrginae Sub species : Tagiades gana silvia   common names : Dakhan Suffused Snow Flat DISTRIBUTION Indo-Malayan Realm STATUS: HABITAT:  .  HABITS IDENTIFICATION  FEATURES Male and female have a dark brown ground colour. The male has on the upperside of the forewing, three minute semi-transparent spots obliquely before the apex; a transverse discal series of streaks, a small patch within the cell, one near the base of the wing, and exterior margin blackish; hindwing with the lower third pure white which is straightly separated from the brown of the basal portion; apical margin and three spots on the upper part of the disc, black, and two spots on the middle of the white anterior margin. Underside paler brown, semi-transparent spots on forewing as above: hindwing white suffused with brown along the anterior margin: upper discal and marginal spots as above black....

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