Arnetta vindhiana

Taxobox | name = Vindhyan Bob

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image_width = 240px
image_caption = Vindhyan Bob
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Arthropoda
classis = Insecta
ordo = Lepidoptera
familia = Hesperiidae
subfamilia = Hesperiinae
genus = "Arnetta"
species = "A. vindhiana"
binomial = "Arnetta vindhiana"
binomial_authority = (Moore, 1883)
synonyms = "Isoteinon vindiana" Moore, 1883 [Moore, Frederic (1883) P. Z. S.:533]

"Arnetta vindhiana", commonly known as the Vindhyan Bob, is a butterfly belonging to the family Hesperiidae. It is native to India.

Description

:"See glossary for terms used"Male. Upperside dark olive-brown ; cilia cinereous ; forewing with a small yellow semi-transparent spot at upper end of the cell, three conjoined subapical spots, two discal spots, and a small oval spot above the submedian vein. Underside dusky ochreous : forewing with the posterior area broadly black ; spots as above ; hindwing with a yellow lunule at end of the cell, a small spot above it and five discal spots.

Size : 25-32mm. UNH spots obscure.UPF spot upper edge cell may be absent. Male:with no tuft UNF.

Distribution

This species is reported from Palni Hills, Nilgiri Hills, Meghamalai, Wayanad, Coorg, Konkan, west Khandesh, Mhow, Thana, Surat Dangs and Madhya Pradesh. Apparently being absent from the heavier jungle country between Bombay and Coorg. Presumably also found in the Vindhyan rage. T. R. D. Bell states that it may be said to live in the dry, bamboo-growing hilly country, but Winter-blyth found it not uncommon on the western slopes of the Nilgiris in September and October in the very wettest, thickest jungle and it seems to be found in similar country in Coorg. Bell says that it is common in the Surat Dangs, where it is found sitting on the ground on dry leaves, blades of grass etc. It visits flowers.

Also recorded from the Nilgiris by George Francis Hampson, who considered this, "modesta" and "nilgiriana" as a single species with "vindhiana" being the dry season form, "nilgiriana" the wet season form, and "modesta" which was described from a single specimen obtained by Mr. Lindsay, a variety. In collections of Indian Museum and Lionel de Niceville. [Watson, E. Y. (1891) Hesperiidae Indicae : being a reprint of descriptions of the Hesperiidae of India, Burma, and Ceylon.]

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