Abaratha agama

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Spotted angle
SPOTTED ANGLE (Caprona agama) Golden form (%3F) 2011 04 07 Ezhut hukallu Nilambur malappuram Distric (7780385896) (cropped).jpg
Dry-season form from Kerala
Spotted angle from Savandurga IMG 0045.jpg
Wet-season form from Bangalore
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Hesperiidae
Genus: Abaratha
Species:
A. agama
Binomial name
Abaratha agama
(Moore, 1857)
Synonyms
List
  • Pyrgus agamaMoore, [1858]
  • Pterygospidea erosulaC. & R. Felder, [1867]
  • Pterygospidea syrichthusC. & R. Felder, [1867]
  • Tagiades danaePlötz, 1884
  • Abantis agama(Moore, 1857)
  • Abaratha sarayaDoherty, 1886
  • Abaratha siamicaSwinhoe, 1907
  • Caprona agama(Moore, 1857)
  • Caprona peliasFruhstorfer, 1909
  • Caprona pelligeraFruhstorfer, 1909
  • Caprona mettasutaFruhstorfer, 1909

Abaratha agama, the spotted angle, [1] is a species of butterfly belonging to the family Hesperiidae. It is found from southern India [1] to Myanmar and in Thailand, Laos, Vietnam, southern China, Java and Sulawesi. The species was first described by Frederic Moore in 1857. [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7]

Description

Male. Upperside dark blackish-grey covered with white spots. Forewing with four spots in the cell, commencing with a dot before the middle, a spot in the middle, another towards the end, constricted in its middle, with a dot above it and a lunule at the end, the last two having rows of spots below them, one in each interspace, except the interuo-median which has two in each row; three conjugated spots where the sub-apical spots usually are, with the two dots below them, a post-discal series of spots composed of eight spots, the four lower ones in a row a little inwards, the lower two small, and a sub-marginal row of small spots. Hindwing with a small spot in the middle of the cell, a lunule at the end, the latter the centre of a middle row of small spots, a post-discal and a sub-marginal row; the cilia of both wings black, with white spots opposite the sub-marginal spots. Underside. Forewing white, all but the lower basal portion suffused more or less with blackish-grey, the spots as above. Hindwing white, without suffusion, the spots round and black, one at the end of the cell, another above it below the costa, a twin spot below it, towards the base of the interno-median interspace, a discal row of spots, those in the middle smaller than the others, and a sub-marginal row of larger spots; marginal line of both wings black; palpi, body below and the legs white, the long tuft of hairs on the base of foreleg black; head and body above blackish-grey, a white spot on each side of the head. Antennae with a white streak on the club, and white dots on the shaft. Female similar to the male.

—  Charles Swinhoe, Lepidoptera Indica Vol. X [7]

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References

  1. 1 2 R.K., Varshney; Smetacek, Peter (2015). A Synoptic Catalogue of the Butterflies of India. New Delhi: Butterfly Research Centre, Bhimtal & Indinov Publishing, New Delhi. p. 33. doi:10.13140/RG.2.1.3966.2164. ISBN   978-81-929826-4-9.
  2. ↑ "Caprona agama agama (Moore,[1858])". A Check List of Butterflies in Indo-China. Retrieved 2018-03-29.
  3. ↑ Savela, Markku. "Caprona agama (Moore, [1858])". Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms. Retrieved June 30, 2018.
  4. ↑ Asiatic Society of Bengal (1832). "Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal". Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. 55 (1886): 138.
  5. ↑ E. Y., Watson (1891). Hesperiidae Indicae: being a reprint of descriptions of the Hesperiidae of India, Burma, and Ceylon. Madras: Vest and Company. p. 100.
  6. ↑ 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. p. 161.
  7. 1 2 PD-icon.svg One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain : Swinhoe, Charles (1912–1913). Lepidoptera Indica. Vol. X. London: Lovell Reeve and Co. pp. 78–79.


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