Oriens goloides
| Common Dartlet | |
|---|---|
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| upper-side | |
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| underside | |
| 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
- 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
- ↑ Watson, E. Y. (1891) Hesperiidae Indicae : being a reprint of descriptions of the Hesperiidae of India, Burma, and Ceylon.
- ↑ 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.