Baracus vittatus

Hampson's hedge-hopper
From Periya
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Hesperiidae
Genus: Baracus
Species: B. vittatus
Binomial name
Baracus vittatus
(Felder, 1862)

Baracus vittatus, commonly known as Hampson's hedge-hopper, is a butterfly belonging to the family Hesperiidae. It is found in India and Sri Lanka.[1]

Description

In 1891, Edward Yerbury Watson described this butterfly as:

Male and female. Upperside dark olive-brown. Male with the lower basal and discal area of both wings olive-grey, and a small subapical spot of the same colour also on the forewing. Female: forewing with a small olive -grey subapical spot and slender macular discal streak: hindwing with less distinct olive-grey lower basal and discal area. Underside ferruginous, the veins narrowly lined with paler ferruginous: forewing with the basal area dusky brown: hindwing with a longitudinal medial yellow fascia from base of cell, and less distinct short yellow discal streak between the veins. Body, palpi, and legs olive-brown, paler beneath.

References

  1. Gamage, R. 2014. An illustrated field guide to the fauna of Sri Lanka, Butterflies. Akalanka Dunwathta. Baddegama
  2. Watson, E. Y. 1891. Hesperiidae Indicae: being a reprint of descriptions of the Hesperiidae of India, Burma, and Ceylon. Vest and co. Madras

See also


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