Biology:Zographetus ogygia

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Short description: Species of butterfly


Purple spotted flitter
PURPLE SPOTTED FLITTER (Zographetus ogygia) (8471545324).jpg
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Arthropoda
Class:
Insecta
Order:
Lepidoptera
Family:
Hesperiidae
Genus:
Zographetus
Species:
Z. ogygia
Binomial name
Zographetus ogygia
(Hewitson, 1866)
Synonyms
  • Hesperia ogygia

Zographetus ogygia, the purple spotted flitter,[1] is a butterfly belonging to the family Hesperiidae.[2][3][4][1][5][6]

Distribution

From southern India[7][8] and Sikkim to Malaya, Thailand, Laos, Borneo, Sumatra, Nias, Banka, Java.[3]

Description

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.
—William Chapman Hewitson[2]

Life history

The larvae feed on Aganope thyrsiflora.[9]

  • Larva

  • Larval cell

  • Chrysalis

  • Imago (ventral view)

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 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. 
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Hewitson, W. C. (1866). Transactions of the Entomological Society of London. London: Royal Entomological Society of London. pp. 500. https://archive.org/stream/transactionsofen32186466roya#page/500/mode/1up. 
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 Savela, Markku. "Zographetus ogygia (Hewitson, [1866)"]. http://www.nic.funet.fi/pub/sci/bio/life/insecta/lepidoptera/ditrysia/hesperioidea/hesperiidae/hesperiinae/zographetus/#ogygia. 
  4. ↑ Inayoshi, Yutaka. "Zographetus ogygia (Hewitson,[1866)"]. http://yutaka.it-n.jp/hes/91760001.html. 
  5. ↑ 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. pp. 300. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/187283#page/324/mode/1up. 
  6. ↑ This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Swinhoe, Charles (1912–1913). Lepidoptera Indica. Vol. X. London: Lovell Reeve and Co.. pp. 188–189. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/103495#page/202/mode/1up. 
  7. ↑ "Butterfly study camp held at Aralam". The Hindu. 13 January 2015. http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/kerala/butterfly-study-camp-held-at-aralam/article6783144.ece. 
  8. ↑ "Fluttering about gaily in tiger reserve". The Hindu. 19 October 2017. http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/kerala/fluttering-about-gaily-in-tiger-reserve/article19884200.ece. 
  9. ↑ 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. 

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