List of butterflies of India (Pyrginae)
This is a list of the butterflies of India belonging to the subfamily Pyrginae of the family Hesperiidae and an index to the species articles. The butterflies of this subfamily are commonly referred to as Flats because of their habit of holding the wings flat at all times. They are also known as angles, elfs or grizzled skippers.
This list forms part of the full list of butterflies of India (Hesperiidae) which itself is part of the complete list of butterflies of India.
A total of 69 species belonging to twenty one genera are found in India.
Checklist
Capila - The Dawnflies
Evans (1932) had listed the various spp of Capila under a number of different genera:
- Orthopaetus group (the Dawnflies)
- Capila group (the Striped Dawnflies)
- Crossiura group (the Fringed Dawnfly)
- Calliana group (the White Dawnfly)
Caprona - The Angles
Carcharodus - The Mallow Skipper
Celaenorrhinus - The Spotted Flats
- Malabar Spotted Flat, Celaenorrhinus ambareesa (Moore, 1865)[13]
- White-banded Flat Celaenorrhinus asmara (Butler, [1879])[13]
- Large Streaked Flat Celaenorrhinus aspersa Leech, 1891[13]
- Dark Yellow-banded Flat Celaenorrhinus aurivittata (Moore, [1879])[13]
- Himalayan Yellow Flat Celaenorrhinus dhanada (Moore, 1865)[13]
- Velvet Flat Celaenorrhinus ficulnea (Hewitson, 1868)[13]
- Common Spotted Flat, Celaenorrhinus leucocera (Kollar , 1848)[13]
- Pied Flat Celaenorrhinus morena Evans, 1949[14]
- Small Banded Flat Celaenorrhinus nigricans (de Nicéville, 1885)[13]
- Large Spotted Flat Celaenorrhinus patula de Nicéville, 1889[13]
- Mussoorie Pied Flat Celaenorrhinus pero Leech, 1894[13]
- Multispotted Flat, Celaenorrhinus pulomaya (Moore, 1865)[13]
- Common Spotted Flat Celaenorrhinus putra (Moore, 1865)
- Double Spotted Flat Celaenorrhinus pyrrha de Nicéville, 1889[13]
- Celaenorrhinus ratna Frühstorfer, 1909[13]
- Tamil Spotted Flat, Celaenorrhinus ruficornis (Mabille , 1878)[13]
- Black Flat Celaenorrhinus spilothyrus (Felder, 1868)[13]
- de Nicéville's Spotted Flat Celaenorrhinus sumitra (Moore, 1865)
- Scarce Banded Flat Celaenorrhinus badia (Hewitson, 1877)[13]
- Bhutan Flat Celaenorrhinus flavocincta (de Nicéville, 1887)[15]
- Himalayan Spotted Flat Celaenorrhinus munda (Moore, 1884)[13]
Chamunda - The Olive Flat
- Olive Flat Chamunda chamunda (Moore, 1865)[16]
Coladenia - The Pied Flats
Ctenoptilum - The Tawny Angle
- Tawny Angle Ctenoptilum vasava (Moore, 1865)[18]
Darpa - The Hairy Angle
Gerosis - Yellow-breast Flats
Gomalia - The Marbled Skipper
Lobocla - The Marbled Flat
Mooreana - The Yellow Flat
- Yellow Flat Mooreana trichoneura (M. t. pralaya, (Moore, 1865))[23]
Odina - The Zigzag Flat
Odontoptilum - The Chestnut Angle
Pseudocoladenia
Pyrgus - The Grizzled Skippers
- Pyrgus alpinus (Erschoff, 1874)[27]
- Pyrgus cashmirensis Moore, 1874[27]
Sarangesa - The Small Flats
Satarupa - The White Flats
Seseria - The White Flats
- Himalayan White Flat Seseria dohertyi Watson, 1863[30]
- Sikkim White Flat Seseria sambara (Moore, 1865)[30]
Spialia - Grizzled Skippers
Tagiades - The Snow Flats
- Flat Tagiades cohaerens Mabille, 1914[32] (T. c. cynthia Evans, 1934)
- Ceylon Snow Flat Tagiades distans Moore[32]
- Immaculate/Large/Suffused Snow Flat, Tagiades gana (Moore, 1865)[32][33]
- Common Snow Flat, Tagiades japetus (Stoll, 1781)[32]
- Water Snow Flat, Tagiades litigiosa (Möschler, 1878)[32]
- Spotted Snow Flat Tagiades menaka (Moore, 1865)[32]
- Tagiades parra Frühstorfer, 1910[32]
- Tagiades toba de Nicéville, 1896[32]
Tapena - The Black Angle
Cited references
References
Print
- 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.
- Gay,Thomas; Kehimkar,Isaac & Punetha,J.C. (1992) Common Butterflies of India. WWF-India and Oxford University Press, Mumbai, India.
- Haribal, Meena. (1992) Butterflies of Sikkim Himalaya and their Natural History (pp 217). Sikkim Nature Conservation Foundation.
- 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
- Wynter-Blyth, M.A. (1957) Butterflies of the Indian Region, Bombay Natural History Society, Mumbai, India.
Online
- Beccaloni, G. W., Scoble, M. J., Robinson, G. S. & Pitkin, B. (Editors). 2003. The Global Lepidoptera Names Index (LepIndex). World Wide Web electronic publication. [1] (accessed 26 September 2007).
- Savela, Marrku Website on Lepidoptera [2] (accessed 26 September 2007)
See also
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