| Common Redeye | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Hesperiidae |
| Genus: | Matapa |
| Species: | M. aria |
| Binomial name | |
| Matapa aria (Moore, 1865) |
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Matapa aria, commonly known as the Common Redeye, is a butterfly belonging to the family Hesperiidae.
Male and female chocolate brown. Male. Upperside, pale brown ; forewing with a short impressed comma-like grey streak obliquely beneath the cell. Cilia yellowish white. Underside bright ferruginous brown. Palpi ferruginous brown. Female. Upperside dark chocolate brown without the impressed streak ; cilia of hindwing pale orange yellow. Underside bright ferruginous brown.[1] The larvae feed on Bambusa striata, Ochlandra travancorica and Ochlandra scriptoria.[2]