Common redeye | |
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Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Lepidoptera |
Family: | Hesperiidae |
Genus: | Matapa |
Species: | M. aria |
Binomial name | |
Matapa aria | |
Synonyms | |
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Matapa aria, the common redeye, [2] is a species of butterfly belonging to the family Hesperiidae. It is found in India and Southeast Asia. [2] [3] [4]
Male and female chocolate brown.
Male. Upperside, pale brown; forewing with a short impressed comma-like grey streak obliquely beneath the cell. Cilia yellowish white. Underside bright ferruginous brown. Palpi ferruginous brown.
Female. Upperside dark chocolate brown without the impressed streak; cilia of hindwing pale orange yellow. Underside bright ferruginous brown. [5]
The larvae feed on Bambusa striata , Ochlandra travancorica and Ochlandra scriptoria . [6]