Species of butterfly
Zographetus ogygia , the purple spotted flitter ,[ 1] is a butterfly belonging to the family Hesperiidae .[ 2] [ 3] [ 4] [ 1] [ 5] [ 6]
From southern India[ 7] [ 8] and Sikkim to Malaya, Thailand, Laos, Borneo, Sumatra, Nias, Banka, Java.[ 3]
In 1866, William Chapman Hewitson described this butterfly as:
Upperside rufous-brown. Anterior wing with five transparent spots; four together in the middle.
Underside rufous. Anterior wing with the base and centre brown. Posterior wing with two brown spots before the middle and a transverse band of similar spots at the middle.
The larvae feed on Aganope thyrsiflora .[ 9]
Larva
Larval cell
Chrysalis
Imago (ventral view)
^ a b Varshney, R.; Smetacek, P. A Synoptic Catalogue of the Butterflies of India (2015 ed.). New Delhi: Butterfly Research Centre, Bhimtal and Indinov Publishing. p. 51.
^ a b Hewitson, W. C. (1866). Transactions of the Entomological Society of London . London: Royal Entomological Society of London. p. 500.
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^ Evans, W. H. (1949). A Catalogue of the Hesperiidae from Europe, Asia, and Australia in the British Museum . London: British Museum (Natural History). Department of Entomology. p. 300.
^ One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain : Swinhoe, Charles (1912–1913). Lepidoptera Indica. Vol. X . London: Lovell Reeve and Co. pp. 188–189.
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^ Ravikanthachari Nitin; V.C. Balakrishnan; Paresh V. Churi; S. Kalesh; Satya Prakash; Krushnamegh Kunte (2018-04-10). "Larval host plants of the buterfies of the Western Ghats, India" . Journal of Threatened Taxa . 10 (4): 11502. doi :10.11609/jott.3104.10.4.11495-11550 .