Matapa aria

Common redeye
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Hesperiidae
Genus:	Matapa
Species:	M. aria
Binomial name
	Matapa aria; (Moore, 1865)
Synonyms
	Ismene aria Moore, [1866]; Hesperia neglecta Mabille, 1876;

Matapa aria, the common redeye, is a butterfly belonging to the family Hesperiidae.

Description

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.^[2]

The larvae feed on Bambusa striata, Ochlandra travancorica and Ochlandra scriptoria.^[3]

References

^ Matapa at funet.fi
^ Watson, E. Y. (1891) Hesperiidae indicae. Vest and Co. Madras.
^ Kalesh, S & S K Prakash (2007). "Additions of the larval host plants of butterflies of the Western Ghats, Kerala, Southern India (Rhopalocera, Lepidoptera): Part 1". Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society. 104 (2): 235–238.

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[1] Matapa at funet.fi

[watson-2] Watson, E. Y. (1891) Hesperiidae indicae. Vest and Co. Madras.

[3] Kalesh, S & S K Prakash (2007). "Additions of the larval host plants of butterflies of the Western Ghats, Kerala, Southern India (Rhopalocera, Lepidoptera): Part 1". Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society. 104 (2): 235–238.

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