Biology:Matapa aria
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Short description: Species of butterfly
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Hesperiidae |
| Genus: | Matapa |
| Species: | M. aria
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| Binomial name | |
| Matapa aria (Moore, 1865)[1]
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Matapa aria, the common redeye,[2] is a butterfly belonging to the family Hesperiidae found in India and Southeast Asia.[2][3][4]
Description
Male and female chocolate brown.
Male. Upperside, pale brown; forewing with a short impressed comma-like grey streak obliquely beneath the cell. Cilia yellowish white. Underside bright ferruginous brown. Palpi ferruginous brown.
Female. Upperside dark chocolate brown without the impressed streak; cilia of hindwing pale orange yellow. Underside bright ferruginous brown.[5]
The larvae feed on Bambusa striata, Ochlandra travancorica and Ochlandra scriptoria.[6]
- Life cycle
Egg
Larva
Pupa
Imago
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References
- ↑ Matapa at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 R.K., Varshney; Smetacek, Peter (2015). A Synoptic Catalogue of the Butterflies of India. New Delhi: Butterfly Research Centre, Bhimtal & Indinov Publishing, New Delhi. pp. 54. doi:10.13140/RG.2.1.3966.2164. ISBN 978-81-929826-4-9. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/287980260.
- ↑ W. H., Evans (1949). A Catalogue of the Hesperiidae from Europe, Asia, and Australia in the British Museum. London: British Museum (Natural History). Department of Entomology. pp. 171–172. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/187283#page/185/mode/1up.
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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. 330. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/103495#page/354/mode/1up.
- ↑ This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: E. Y., Watson (1891). Hesperiidae Indicae : being a reprint of descriptions of the Hesperiidae of India, Burma, and Ceylon. Madras: Vest and Company. pp. 24. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/64080#page/38/mode/1up.
- ↑ Kalesh, S & S K Prakash (2007). "Additions of the larval host plants of butterflies of the Western Ghats, Kerala, Southern India (Rhopalocera, Lepidoptera): Part 1". Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 104 (2): 235–238.
Wikidata ☰ Q6786092 entry
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