- Tagiades gana
Taxobox | name = Immaculate/Large/Suffused Snow Flat
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regnum =Animal ia
phylum =Arthropod a
classis =Insect a
ordo =Lepidoptera
familia =Hesperiidae
subfamilia =Pyrginae
genus = "Tagiades "
species = "T. gana"
binomial = "Tagiades gana"
binomial_authority = (Moore,1865 )
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range_map_caption ="Tagiades gana", commonly known as the Immaculate/Large/Suffused Snow Flat, is a
butterfly belonging to the familyHesperiidae .Description
:"See glossary for terms used."Watson (1891) gives a detailed description as follows :-Watson, E. Y. (1891).] Male and female have a dark brown ground colour. The male has on the upperside of the forewing, three minute semi-transparent spots obliquely before the apex ; a transverse discal series of streaks, a small patch within the cell, one near the base of the wing, and exterior margin blackish ; hindwing with the lower third pure white which is straightly separated from the brown of the basal portion ; apical margin and three spots on the upper part of the disc, black, and two spots on the middle of thewhite anterior margin. Underside paler brown, semi-transparent spots on forewing as above : hindwing white suffused with brown along the anterior margin : upper discal and marginal spots as above black.Female paler. Upperside somewhat greyish-brown ; forewing with spots and blackish discal streaks, and hindwing with upper discal spots as in male : exterior margin of hindwing greyish-white. Underside as in male. Cilia of both sexes pure white on the lower portion of the hindwing, the rest brown.
Cited references
ee also
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Coeliadinae
*Hesperiidae
*List of butterflies of India (Coeliadinae)
*List of butterflies of India (Hesperiidae) References
Print
*aut|Evans, W.H. (1932) "The Identification of Indian Butterflies". 2nd Ed, (i to x, pp454, 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|Watson, E. Y. (1891) "Hesperiidae indicae: being a reprint of descriptions of the Hesperiidae of India, Burma, and Ceylon.". Vest and Co. Madras.
*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 22 September 2007).
*aut|Brower, Andrew V. Z. and aut|Warren, Andrew, (2007). Coeliadinae Evans 1937. Version 21 February 2007 (temporary). http://tolweb.org/Coeliadinae/12150/2007.02.21 in The Tree of Life Web Project, http://tolweb.org/
*aut|Savela, Marrku Website on Lepidoptera [http://www.nic.funet.fi/pub/sci/bio/life/index.html] (accessed 22 September 2007)
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