Biology:Caprona agama

Short description: Species of butterfly

Spotted angle
Dry-season form from Kerala
Wet-season form from Bangalore
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Hesperiidae
Genus:	Caprona
Species:	C. agama
Binomial name
Caprona agama (Moore, 1857)
Synonyms
Pyrgus agama Moore, [1858] Pterygospidea erosula C. & R. Felder, [1867] Pterygospidea syrichthus C. & R. Felder, [1867] Tagiades danae Plötz, 1884 Abaratha saraya Doherty, 1886 Abaratha siamica Swinhoe, 1907 Caprona pelias Fruhstorfer, 1909 Caprona pelligera Fruhstorfer, 1909 Caprona mettasuta Fruhstorfer, 1909

Caprona agama, the spotted angle, is a butterfly belonging to the family Hesperiidae. It is found from southern India to Myanmar and in Thailand, Laos, Vietnam, southern China , Java and Sulawesi. The species was first described by Frederic Moore in 1857.

Description

Male. Upperside dark blackish-grey covered with white spots. Forewing with four spots in the cell, commencing with a dot before the middle, a spot in the middle, another towards the end, constricted in its middle, with a dot above it and a lunule at the end, the last two having rows of spots below them, one in each interspace, except the interuo-median which has two in each row; three conjugated spots where the sub-apical spots usually are, with the two dots below them, a post-discal series of spots composed of eight spots, the four lower ones in a row a little inwards, the lower two small, and a sub-marginal row of small spots. Hindwing with a small spot in the middle of the cell, a lunule at the end, the latter the centre of a middle row of small spots, a post-discal and a sub-marginal row; the cilia of both wings black, with white spots opposite the sub-marginal spots. Underside. Forewing white, all but the lower basal portion suffused more or less with blackish-grey, the spots as above. Hindwing white, without suffusion, the spots round and black, one at the end of the cell, another above it below the costa, a twin spot below it, towards the base of the interno-median interspace, a discal row of spots, those in the middle smaller than the others, and a sub-marginal row of larger spots; marginal line of both wings black; palpi, body below and the legs white, the long tuft of hairs on the base of foreleg black; head and body above blackish-grey, a white spot on each side of the head. Antennae with a white streak on the club, and white dots on the shaft. Female similar to the male.

References

Wikidata ☰ Q5036315 entry