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...

 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...