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Matapa aria, commonly known as the Common Redeye, is a butterfly belonging to the family Hesperiidae.
Description
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Male and female chocolate brown. Male. Upperside, pale brown ; forewing with a short impressed comma-like grey streak obliquely beneath the cell. Cilia yellowish white. Underside bright ferruginous brown. Palpi ferruginous brown. Female. Upperside dark chocolate brown without the impressed streak ; cilia of hindwing pale orange yellow. Underside bright ferruginous brown.[1] The larvae feed on Bambusa striata, Ochlandra travancorica and Ochlandra scriptoria.[2]
References
- ^ Watson, E. Y. (1891) Hesperiidae indicae. Vest and Co. Madras.
- ^ Kalesh, S & S K Prakash (2007). "Additions ot the larval host plants of butterflies of the Western Ghats, Kerala, Southern India (Rhopalocera, Lepidoptera): Part 1". J. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc. (2): 235–238.
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