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Tagiades litigiosa

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Water Snow Flat
From the Western Ghats
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Arthropoda
Class:
Insecta
Order:
Lepidoptera
Family:
Hesperiidae
Genus:
Tagiades
Species:
T. litigiosa
Binomial name
Tagiades litigiosa
(Möschler, 1878)

Tagiades litigiosa, commonly known as the Water Snow Flat, is a butterfly belonging to the family Hesperiidae which is found in India.

The larvae feed on Dioscorea oppositifolia, Dioscorea alata[1] and Smilax species.

References

  1. ^ 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". J. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc. 104 (2): 235–238.


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