- Tapena thwaitesi
Taxobox | name = Black Angle
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regnum =Animal ia
phylum =Arthropod a
classis =Insect a
ordo =Lepidoptera
familia =Hesperiidae
subfamilia =Pyrginae
genus = "Tapena "
species = "T. thwaitesi"
binomial = "Tapena thwaitesi"
binomial_authority = (Moore, 1881)Card for [http://internt.nhm.ac.uk/jdsml/research-curation/projects/lepindex/detail.dsml?TaxonNo=188830.0&UserID=&UserName=&&listPageURL=list%2edsml%3fsort%3dSCIENTIFIC%255fNAME%255fon%255fcard%26SCIENTIFIC%5fNAME%5fon%5fcardqtype%3dstarts%2bwith%26SCIENTIFIC%5fNAME%5fon%5fcard%3dthwaitesi%26recLimit%3d30&searchPageURL=index%2edsml%3fSCIENTIFIC%5fNAME%5fon%5fcardqtype%3dstarts%2bwith%26sort%3dSCIENTIFIC%255fNAME%255fon%255fcard%26SCIENTIFIC%5fNAME%5fon%5fcard%3dthwaitesi%26recLimit%3d30 "Tapena thwaitesi"] in LepIndex. Accessed 12 October 2007.] [Moore, Lep. Cey., vol. I, p. 181, pi. 67.]
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range_map_caption ="Tapena thwaitesi",Marrku Savela's Website on Lepidoptera. Page on genus [http://www.funet.fi/pub/sci/bio/life/insecta/lepidoptera/ditrysia/hesperioidea/hesperiidae/pyrginae/tapena/index.html "Tapena"] .] commonly known as the Black Angle, is a
monotypic species ofbutterfly belonging to the familyHesperiidae .TOL web page on [http://www.tolweb.org/Tapena_thwaitesi genus "Tapena thwaitesi"] ] The species name is after G. H. K. Thwaites, the Director of the Botanical Garden atPeradeniya ,Sri Lanka between 1849 and 1880.Description
Male has the upperside dark purple-brown, with blackish outer margins and indistinct discal transverse band of spots; forewing with two small translucent white spots on the costa near the apex. Underside dark purple-brown.
Female has the upper and underside greyish purple-brown, transverse band of spots and outer border dark purple-brown; forewing with three small semi-diaphanous white subapical spots, the lowest transversely narrow, two spots also at end of the cell, the upper one very slender, and two spots on the disc, each series being bordered by the dark band; hindwing with a semi-diaphanous spot at end of the cell. [Watson, E. Y. (1891) Hesperiidae indicae: being a reprint of descriptions of the Hesperiidae of India, Burma, and Ceylon. Vest and Co. Madras.]
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