Biology:Odontoptilum angulata
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Short description: Species of butterfly
| Chestnut angle | |
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| At Namdapha National Park, Arunachal Pradesh, India | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Hesperiidae |
| Genus: | Odontoptilum |
| Species: | O. angulata
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| Binomial name | |
| Odontoptilum angulata (C. Felder, 1862)
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Odontoptilum angulata,[1] the chestnut angle or banded angle, is a butterfly belonging to the family Hesperiidae and is found in India [2] and southeast Asia.[3][4][5][6]
Description
Male and female vinaceous-brown, palest on the hindwing. Male, forewing dull chestnut-brown along exterior margin, with a black transverse band one-third from the base; a geminated semi-transparent spot on costa before the apex, surrounded by suffused black; a semi-transparent lunule and a small spot on the lower part of the disc, bordered without by a black band: hindwing with a transverse subbasal, an elbowed discal, and a lower submarginal purplish-white line; apex of wing with suffused black patch and lower marginal blackish pale-bordered spots. Underside brown, forewing suffused with greyish-white at the base; markings as above: hindwing greyish-white, the transverse lines less defined, marginal spots blacker, and a blackish spot near base of wing. Palpi above black. Palpi and body beneath and legs greyish-white. Female paler, marked on upper-and undersides as in male.—E. Y. Watson[7]
References
- ↑ Felder, Cajetan Freiherr von (1862). Verzeichniss der von den Naturforschern der k. k. Fregatte Novara gesammelten Macropepidoteren. Zoologisch-Botanische Gesellschaft in Wien. pp. 488. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/239512#page/620/mode/1up.
- ↑ Varshney, R.K.; Smetacek, Peter (2015). A Synoptic Catalogue of the Butterflies of India. New Delhi: Butterfly Research Centre, Bhimtal & Indinov Publishing, New Delhi. pp. 33. doi:10.13140/RG.2.1.3966.2164. ISBN 978-81-929826-4-9. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/287980260.
- ↑ Savela, Markku. "Odontoptilum angulata (Felder, 1862)". http://www.nic.funet.fi/pub/sci/bio/life/insecta/lepidoptera/ditrysia/hesperioidea/hesperiidae/pyrginae/odontoptilum/#angulata.
- ↑ Inayoshi, Yutaka. "Odontoptilum angulata angulata (C. Felder, 1862)". http://yutaka.it-n.jp/hes/90970001.html.
- ↑ 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. 157. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/187283#page/181/mode/1up.
- ↑
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Swinhoe, Charles (1912–1913). Lepidoptera Indica. 10. London: Lovell Reeve and Co.. pp. 81–82. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/103495#page/80/mode/1up.
- ↑ This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Watson, E. Y. (1891). Hesperiidae Indicae: being a reprint of descriptions of the Hesperiidae of India, Burma, and Ceylon. Madras: Vest and Company. pp. 105–106. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/64080#page/119/mode/1up.
Wikidata ☰ Q7078008 entry
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