| Golden angle | |
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| Wet-season form | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Hesperiidae |
| Genus: | Abaratha |
| Species: | A. ransonnetii |
| Binomial name | |
| Abaratha ransonnetii (C. Felder, 1868) | |
| Synonyms | |
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Abaratha ransonnetii, commonly known as the golden angle, [1] is a butterfly belonging to the family Hesperiidae. It was first described by Baron Cajetan von Felder in 1868. [2] [3] [4] [1] [5] [6]
The following subspecies are reconised:
It occurs in India (Gujarat, Jharkhand, Odisha and southwards to Kerala) and Sri Lanka. [8] [1] [7]
In 1891, Edward Yerbury Watson gave this detailed description:
Upperside fuliginous ochreous-brown. Male; forewing with three small semi-transparent white spots before the apex (and sometimes one or two very minute spots obliquely below them), two spots within end of the cell, a slender spot between the upper and middle median veins, a larger spot between the latter vein and submedian, and followed below it by two small obliquely disposed spots; a marginal double row of pale indistinct small lunules; hindwing with a broad medial discal macular pale ochreous band traversed by brown veins and a spot within end of the cell, the outer discal area suffused with grey-brown. Cilia alternated with white. Female; forewing with the spots and marginal lunules, and the macular band on hindwing more prominent, the latter also more distinctly bordered with grey. Underside: forewing paler brown; the basal area greyish-white, the spots with clouded black outer borders; hindwing greyish-white, the outer margin only being brown, traversed by a curved discal series of small blackish spots. [8]
The dry-season form which has been named A. taylorii by de Niceville differs in being ochreous not dark brown above, and in having the disc of the hindwing unmarked with a group of ochreous spots and streaks. A similar variation has been noted by Mr. de Niceville in C. tissa, a not very distantly allied species, and in both cases it is the dry-season form which is the paler. [8]
— E.Y. Watson
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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. 73–75.  | This Pyrginae-related article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. |