Biology:Thoressa evershedi
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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: | Thoressa |
| Species: | T. evershedi
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| Binomial name | |
| Thoressa evershedi (Evans, 1910)
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Thoressa evershedi, the Evershed's ace,[1] is a butterfly belonging to the family Hesperiidae.W. H. Evans described it from Palni Hills in 1910 and named it after Evershed as he was the first person to collect it.[2][3][4]
Description
Male. Upperside blackish-brown, much the same colour as in H. sitala. Forewing with the spots similarly placed, but a little smaller. Cilia grey, with brown patches. Hindwing without markings, uniformly coloured. Cilia grey, without the patches. Underside. Forewing paler brown, the costal and apical areas suffused with ochreous-red, the spots as on the upperside. Hindwing ochreous-red, the abdominal half of the wing and the costa (narrowly) suffused with brown, the outer margin with a brownish macular band and with indications of some brownish discal spots. Antennae black, ringed with white, apical half of club orange-red, the lower half of the club on the underside and part of the shaft white; palpi with black and white hairs pectus with grey hairs; head and body above and below concolorous with the wings.
Range
The butterfly occurs in western Tamil Nadu, eastern Kerala. It is an occasional visitor to south-western Karnataka. [5]
References
- ↑ Varshney, R.; Smetacek, P.. A Synoptic Catalogue of the Butterflies of India. (2015 ed.). New Delhi: Butterfly Research Centre, Bhimtal and Indinov Publishing. p. 43.
- ↑ A list of butterflies of the Palni hills. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society.. https://archive.org/stream/journalofbombayn20191011bomb#page/389/mode/1up.
- ↑ 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. 257. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/187283#page/281/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. 281. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/103495#page/295/mode/1up.
- ↑ "Thoressa evershedi Evans, 1910 – Travancore Tawny Ace.". Indian Foundation for Butterflies. http://www.ifoundbutterflies.org/sp/883/Thoressa-evershedi.
Wikidata ☰ Q7796205 entry
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