Abaratha ransonnetii
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| Caprona ransonnetii (Felder, 1868)
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Caprona ransonnetii, commonly known as the golden angle, is a butterfly belonging to the family Hesperiidae.[1][2][3]
Subspecies
The subspecies of Caprona ransonnetii include:[4]
- Caprona ransonnetii potiphera Hewitson, 1873 (Peninsular India)
- C. r. ransonnetii
Range
It occurs in Sri Lanka, Odisha and in the Nilgiri mountains.[5]
Description
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In 1891, Edward Yerbury Watson gave this detailed description:
Upperside fuliginous ochreous-brown. Male; forewing with three small semi-transparent white spots before the apex (and sometimes one or two very minute spots obliquely below them), two spots within end of the cell, a slender spot between the upper and middle median veins, a larger spot between the latter vein and submedian, and followed below it by two small obliquely disposed spots; a marginal double row of pale indistinct small lunules; hindwing with a broad medial discal macular pale ochreous band traversed by brown veins and a spot within end of the cell, the outer discal area suffused with grey-brown. Cilia alternated with white. Female; forewing with the spots and marginal lunules, and the macular band on hindwing more prominent, the latter also more distinctly bordered with grey. Underside: forewing paler brown; the basal area greyish-white, the spots with clouded black outer borders; hindwing greyish-white, the outer margin only being brown, traversed by a curved discal series of small blackish spots.[5]
The dry-season form which has been named A. taylorii by de Niceville differs in being ochreous not dark brown above, and in having the disc of the hindwing unmarked with a group of ochreous spots and streaks. A similar variation has been noted by Mr. de Niceville in C. tissa, a not very distantly allied species, and in both cases it is the dry-season form which is the paler.
— E.Y. Watson
References
- ^ Savela, Markku. "Caprona Wallengren, 1857 Ragged Skippers". Lepidoptera Perhoset Butterflies and Moths. Retrieved 2018-03-29.
{{cite web}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter:|dead-url=(help) - ^ Felder (1868). "Diagnose neuer von E. Baron v. Ransonnet in Vorder-Indien gesammelter Lepidopteren". Zoologisch-Botanische Gesellschaft in Wien. 18 (1-2): 284.
- ^ Moore, Frederic (1880). The Lepidoptera of Ceylon. London: L. Reeve & co. p. 182.
- ^ "Caprona ransonnettii Felder, 1868 – Golden Angle". Retrieved 26 August 2017.
- ^ a b Watson, E. Y. 1891. Hesperiidae Indicae: descriptions of the Hesperiidae of India, Burmah and Ceylon. Madras.
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