Biology:Tagiades litigiosa
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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: | Tagiades |
| Species: | T. litigiosa
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| Binomial name | |
| Tagiades litigiosa (Möschler, 1878)
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Tagiades litigiosa, the water snow flat,[1][2] is a butterfly belonging to the family Hesperiidae which is found in India ,[1] Sri Lanka, and Myanmar.[2][3][4]
Description
Male. Upper.side. Forewing black, usually more densely black than in Tagiades menaka, markings similar except for two extra spots, one below the cell spot at the origin of vein 5, and the other in the middle of first median interspace, bringing the four spots (including the sub-costal spot) into a slightly curved Hue. Hindwing with the white space generally smaller than in T. menaka, the marginal spots similar, the two black spots within the white space absent. Underside. Forewing paler, markings as above, Hindwing like the underside of menaka, the black spots larger; palpi, legs, head and body above and below similar. Female similar to the male, the semi-hyaline spots on the forewing and the black spots on the hindwing larger, the two large black spots on the inner side of the black apical band half inside the white space as in the female of T. menaka.
The larvae feed on Dioscorea oppositifolia, Dioscorea alata[5] and Smilax species.
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Ventral view
Egg
Larva case
Larva
Pupa
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References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Varshney, R.K.; Smetacek, Peter (2015). A Synoptic Catalogue of the Butterflies of India. New Delhi: Butterfly Research Centre, Bhimtal & Indinov Publishing. pp. 32. doi:10.13140/RG.2.1.3966.2164. ISBN 978-81-929826-4-9. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/287980260.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Savela, Markku. "Tagiades litigiosa Möschler, 1878". http://www.nic.funet.fi/pub/sci/bio/life/insecta/lepidoptera/ditrysia/hesperioidea/hesperiidae/pyrginae/tagiades/#litigiosa.
- ↑ 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. 146. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/187283#page/170/mode/1up.
- ↑
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. 48–50. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/103495#page/62/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 ☰ Q1595792 entry
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