Zographetus ogygia

Zographetus ogygia
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Hesperiidae
Genus:	Zographetus
Species:	Z. ogygia
Binomial name
Zographetus ogygia (Hewitson, 1866)
Synonyms
Hesperia ogygia

Zographetus ogygia, the purple spotted flitter, ^[1] is a butterfly belonging to the family Hesperiidae. ^{[2] [3] [4] [1] [5] [6]}

Distribution

From southern India ^{[7] [8]} and Sikkim to Malaya, Thailand, Laos, Borneo, Sumatra, Nias, Banka, Java. ^[3]

Description

In 1866, William Chapman Hewitson described this butterfly as:

Upperside rufous-brown. Anterior wing with five transparent spots; four together in the middle. Underside rufous. Anterior wing with the base and centre brown. Posterior wing with two brown spots before the middle and a transverse band of similar spots at the middle.

—  William Chapman Hewitson ^[2]

Life history

The larvae feed on Aganope thyrsiflora . ^[9]

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  Larva
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  Larval cell
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  Chrysalis
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  Imago (ventral view)

References

1. Varshney, R.; Smetacek, P. A Synoptic Catalogue of the Butterflies of India (2015 ed.). New Delhi: Butterfly Research Centre, Bhimtal and Indinov Publishing. p. 51.
2. Hewitson, W. C. (1866). Transactions of the Entomological Society of London. London: Royal Entomological Society of London. p. 500.
3. Savela, Markku. "Zographetus ogygia (Hewitson, [1866])". Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms. Retrieved July 3, 2018.
4. Inayoshi, Yutaka. "Zographetus ogygia (Hewitson,[1866])". Butterflies in Indo-China. Retrieved 2018-04-14.
5. 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. p. 300.
6. 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. 188–189.
7. "Butterfly study camp held at Aralam". The Hindu. 13 January 2015. Retrieved 13 April 2018.
8. "Fluttering about gaily in tiger reserve". The Hindu. 19 October 2017. Retrieved 13 April 2018.
9. 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): 11502. doi: 10.11609/jott.3104.10.4.11495-11550 .