| Taxon | Sarangesa purendra |
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| Authority | Moore, 1882[1] |
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Sarangesa purendra, commonly known as the spotted small flat, is a species of butterfly in the family Hesperiidae.[2][1][3][4][5][6]
Subspecies
- Sarangesa purendra purendra Moore, 1882 - Himachal Pradesh to Uttarakhand[3]
- Sarangesa purendra hopkinsi Evans, 1921 - Karnataka and Tamil Nadu[3]
- Sarangesa purendra pandra Evans, 1949 - Kerala to Rajasthan[3]
- Sarangesa purendra sati de Nicéville, 1891 - Gujarat (Kutch)[3]
Description
In 1865, Frederic Moore described this butterfly as:
Upperside greyer than in S. dasahara, with paler mottled markings: fore wing with a semidiaphanous white continuous streak across the cell near its end, a continuous small spot above it, three small conjoined spots before the apex, and three on the disk, the middle discal spot large and quadrate. Cilia alternated with grey. Underside paler; fore wing marked as above, and with an additional small white lower spot on the disk, and a basal streak below the cell: hind wing with a small whitish spot in middle of the cell, and a less distinct discal curved series.
Life history
The larvae of Sarangesa purendra hopkinsi feed on Asystasia and Blepharis asperrima.[7] They also feed on Lepidagathis cristata but need confirmation. Whereas the Sarangesa purendra pandra feed on Lepidagathis keralensis.
References
- ^ Savela, Markku. "Sarangesa purendra Moore, 1882". Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms. Retrieved July 3, 2018.
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- ^ Varshney, R. & Smetacek, P. A Synoptic Catalogue of the Butterflies of India.. 2015 ed. New Delhi: Butterfly Research Centre, Bhimtal and Indinov Publishing. p. 38.
- ^ Watson, E. Y. (1891). Hesperiidae Indicae: being a reprint of descriptions of the Hesperiidae of India, Burma, and Ceylon. Madras: Vest and Company. p. 54.
- ^ 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. 119.
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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): 11505. doi:10.11609/jott.3104.10.4.11495-11550