Celaenorrhinus ruficornis

Taxobox | name = Tamil Spotted Flat
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regnum = Animalia
phylum = Arthropoda
classis = Insecta
ordo = Lepidoptera
familia = Hesperiidae
subfamilia = Pyrginae
genus = "Celaenorrhinus"
species = "C. ruficornis"
binomial = "Celaenorrhinus ruficornis"
binomial_authority = (Mabille, 1878) [http://internt.nhm.ac.uk/jdsml/research-curation/projects/lepindex/detail.dsml?UserID=&UserName=&TaxonNo=182181.0&SCIENTIFIC_NAME_on_card=ruficornis&listPageURL=list%2edsml%3fsort%3dSCIENTIFIC%255fNAME%255fon%255fcard%26SCIENTIFIC%5fNAME%5fon%5fcardqtype%3dstarts%2bwith%26SCIENTIFIC%5fNAME%5fon%5fcard%3daurivittata%26recLimit%3d30&searchPageURL=index%2edsml%3fSCIENTIFIC%5fNAME%5fon%5fcardqtype%3dstarts%2bwith%26sort%3dSCIENTIFIC%255fNAME%255fon%255fcard%26SCIENTIFIC%5fNAME%5fon%5fcard%3daurivittata%26recLimit%3d30 Card for "ruficornis" in LepIndex. Accessed 22 September 2007.] ]
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"Celaenorrhinus ruficornis",Marrku Savela's Website on Lepidoptera [http://www.funet.fi/pub/sci/bio/life/insecta/lepidoptera/ditrysia/hesperioidea/hesperiidae/pyrginae/celaenorrhinus/index.html|Page on "Celaenorrhinus" genus.] , Subfamily Pyrginae, Family Hesperiidae] commonly known as the Tamil Spotted Flat,Evans,W.H.(1932) The Identification of Indian Butterflies, ser no I11.20, pp 327.] is a butterfly belonging to the family Hesperiidae which is found in India.

Range

The butterfly occurs in India in the Western Ghats, Nilgiris and the Palni hills.Evans,W.H.(1932) The Identification of Indian Butterflies, ser no I11.2, pp 324.] Evans (1932) gives range of "C.r. area" Plotz as South India to Bengal; "C. r. ruficornis", Mabille as Java and "C. r. celebica" Evans, 1932 as Sulawesi. Reorganisation of the species appears to have led to restriction of the range of the species.]

A record in Calcutta may be vagrant or mistaken.Wynter-Blyth, M.A. (1957) Butterflies of the Indian Region, pg 460 - 461.]

tatus

Common on the Western Ghats.

Description

:"For a key to the terms used see the glossary of Lepidopteran terms."

The butterfly has a wingspan of 45 to 50 mm. The butterflies resemble the Common Spotted Flat excepting that the discal spot in 2 and the spot end cell of the forewing are separate. The upper hindwing is only obscurely marked. The antenna is chequered and has a white club.

Habits

It is common along the Western Ghats, especially during the monsoon. It may be caught in the daytime by beating out roadside patches of Lantana camara.

Life history

Foodplants: "Phaulopsis", "Strobilanthes" (Acanthaceae).As per Igarashi & Fukuda (2000) which provide illustrations of foodplant, larva and pupa vide this [http://www.wildlifeconservationproducts.net/Library/Indonesia/Indonesia%20Terrestrial/Invertebrates/HESPERIOIDEA%20species%20list%20indo.pdf site] .]

Cited references

ee also

*Pyrginae
*Hesperiidae
*List of butterflies of India (Hesperiidae)
*List of butterflies of India (Pyrginae)

References

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*aut|Evans, W.H. (1932) "The Identification of Indian Butterflies". 2nd Ed, (i to x, pp454, 9 figs, Plates I to XXXII), Bombay Natural History Society, Mumbai, India.
*aut|Kunte, Krushnamegh. (2000) "Butterflies of Peninsular India", (i to xviii, pp254, Plates 1 to 32) Universities Press (India) Ltd, Hyderabad (reprint 2006). ISBN 81-7371-354-5.
*aut|Wynter-Blyth, M.A. (1957) "Butterflies of the Indian Region", Bombay Natural History Society, Mumbai, India.Online
*aut|Beccaloni, G. W., aut|Scoble, M. J., aut|Robinson, G. S. & aut|Pitkin, B. (Editors). 2003. The Global Lepidoptera Names Index (LepIndex). World Wide Web electronic publication. http://www.nhm.ac.uk/entomology/lepindex [accessed 29 October 2007] .
*aut|Brower, Andrew V. Z., (2007). Celaenorrhinus Hübner 1819. Ancistrocampta C. Felder & R. Felder 1862 currently viewed as a subjective junior synonym. Version 04 March 2007 (under construction). http://tolweb.org/Celaenorrhinus/95353/2007.03.04 in The Tree of Life Web Project, http://tolweb.org/.
*aut|Savela, Marrku Website on "Lepidoptera and some other life forms" [http://www.nic.funet.fi/pub/sci/bio/life/index.html] (accessed 29 October 2007).