Oriens goloides

Common Dartlet
From Narenderpur near Kolkata, India.
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Hesperiidae
Genus:	Oriens
Species:	O. goloides
Binomial name
Oriens goloides (Moore, 1881)

Oriens goloides, commonly known as the Common Dartlet, is a butterfly belonging to the family Hesperiidae.

Description

At Narenderpur near Kolkata, India

At Narenderpur near Kolkata, India

See glossary for terms used

Upperside dark purple-brown. Male : forewing with a golden yellow oblique discal sinuous band followed by small costal spots before the apex ; base of the costa and cell, and two spots at its end also of the same colour ; hindwing with a medial discal sinuous golden-yellow band, the hairy scales extending to the base also yellow. Cilia golden yellow. Underside with less distinct markings as above: costa and apex of forewing and the hindwing suffused with yellow. Body and legs golden-yellow; palpi and front of thorax beneath saffron-yellow. Female : differs only in the discal band being narrow ; and not having the yellow costal streak.

—E. Y. Watson^[1]

"Nearest allied species is Oriens gola. Differs from it on both sides in the narrower discal band of the forewing, the band being also disconnected from the costal spots; the band of the hindwing is also narrower." (Frederic Moore)

The larvae are known to feed on Axonopus compressus and Oplismenus compositus.^[2]

References

1. ^ Watson, E. Y. (1891) Hesperiidae Indicae : being a reprint of descriptions of the Hesperiidae of India, Burma, and Ceylon.
2. ^ Kalesh, S & S K Prakash (2007). "Additions ot the larval host plants of butterflies of the Western Ghats, Kerala, Southern India (Rhopalocera, Lepidoptera): Part 1". J. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc. 104 (2): 235–238. 

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