Redspot
Zesius chrysomallus Hübner, 1819 Mal ayalam Name : ചെംപൊട്ടു നീലി Order : Lepidopte ra Family : Lycaenidae Sub-family : Theclinae Sub species : Zesius chrysomallus common names : Red Spot DISTRIBUTION India & Sri Lanka STATUS: HABITAT: . HABITS IDENTIFICATION FEATURES Male. Upperside pale cupreous-red, veins finely blackish-brown. Forewing with the costa and outer margin with a narrow brown band of fairly even width throughout. Hindwing with the costal space and abdominal fold pale brown; outer margin more narrowly brown, narrowing hindwards, the abdominal space outside the fold suffused narrowly with brown; a sub-terminal brown spot in each of the three anal interspaces, margined by a slender greyish-blue line, often obsolescent; SIMILAR SPECIES Common Small Flat LARVAL HOST PLANTS Terminalia catappa and Smilax zeylanica. MORE IMAGES Courtesy Write up:Wikipaedia Images: TNHS & iFoundbutterfly.org കേരള വനം വന്യജീവി വകുപ്പ് ...