Biology:Sarangesa purendra
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Short description: Species of butterfly
| Spotted small flat | |
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| From Madayipara, India | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Hesperiidae |
| Genus: | Sarangesa |
| Species: | S. purendra
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| Binomial name | |
| Sarangesa purendra Moore, 1882[1]
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Sarangesa purendra, the spotted small flat, is a butterfly belonging to the family Hesperiidae.[2][1][3][4][5][6]
Subspecies
- Sarangesa purendra purendra Moore, 1882 - Himachal Pradesh to Uttarakhand[3]
- Sarangesa purendra hopkinsi Evans, 1921 - Karnataka and Tamil Nadu[3]
- Sarangesa purendra pandra Evans, 1949 - Kerala to Rajasthan[3]
- Sarangesa purendra sati de Nicéville, 1891 - Gujarat (Kutch)[3]
Description
In 1865, Frederic Moore described this butterfly as:
Upperside greyer than in S. dasahara, with paler mottled markings: fore wing with a semidiaphanous white continuous streak across the cell near its end, a continuous small spot above it, three small conjoined spots before the apex, and three on the disk, the middle discal spot large and quadrate. Cilia alternated with grey. Underside paler; fore wing marked as above, and with an additional small white lower spot on the disk, and a basal streak below the cell: hind wing with a small whitish spot in middle of the cell, and a less distinct discal curved series.—Frederic Moore[2]
Life history
The larvae of Sarangesa purendra hopkinsi feed on Asystasia and Blepharis asperrima.[7] They also feed on Lepidagathis cristata but need confirmation. Whereas the Sarangesa purendra pandra feed on Lepidagathis keralensis.
References
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- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Savela, Markku. "Sarangesa purendra Moore, 1882". http://www.nic.funet.fi/pub/sci/bio/life/insecta/lepidoptera/ditrysia/hesperioidea/hesperiidae/pyrginae/sarangesa/#purendra.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Moore, Frederic (1882). A catalogue of the lepidopterous insects in the museum of the Hon. East-India company. London: Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. https://archive.org/stream/proceedingsofgen82zool#page/262/mode/1up.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 Varshney, R.; Smetacek, P.. A Synoptic Catalogue of the Butterflies of India. (2015 ed.). New Delhi: Butterfly Research Centre, Bhimtal and Indinov Publishing. p. 38.
- ↑ Watson, E. Y. (1891). Hesperiidae Indicae: being a reprint of descriptions of the Hesperiidae of India, Burma, and Ceylon. Madras: Vest and Company. pp. 54. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/64080#page/68/mode/1up.
- ↑ 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. 119. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/187283#page/143/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. 88–89. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/103495#page/102/mode/1up.
- ↑ Ravikanthachari Nitin; V.C. Balakrishnan; Paresh V. Churi; S. Kalesh; Satya Prakash; Krushnamegh Kunte (2018-04-10). "Larval host plants of the buterfies of the Western Ghats, India". Journal of Threatened Taxa 10 (4): 11505. doi:10.11609/jott.3104.10.4.11495-11550.
Wikidata ☰ Q7423124 entry
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