Thoressa evershedi
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Hesperiidae
Genus: Thoressa
Species:
T. evershedi
Binomial name
Thoressa evershedi
(Evans, 1910)

Thoressa evershedi, the Evershed's ace,[1] is a butterfly belonging to the family Hesperiidae.W. H. Evans described it from Palni Hills in 1910 and named it after Evershed as he was the first person to collect it.[2][3][4]

Description

Male. Upperside blackish-brown, much the same colour as in H. sitala. Forewing with the spots similarly placed, but a little smaller. Cilia grey, with brown patches. Hindwing without markings, uniformly coloured. Cilia grey, without the patches. Underside. Forewing paler brown, the costal and apical areas suffused with ochreous-red, the spots as on the upperside. Hindwing ochreous-red, the abdominal half of the wing and the costa (narrowly) suffused with brown, the outer margin with a brownish macular band and with indications of some brownish discal spots. Antennae black, ringed with white, apical half of club orange-red, the lower half of the club on the underside and part of the shaft white; palpi with black and white hairs pectus with grey hairs; head and body above and below concolorous with the wings.

— Charles Swinhoe, Lepidoptera Indica. Vol. X[4]

Range

The butterfly occurs in western Tamil Nadu, eastern Kerala. It is an occasional visitor to south-western Karnataka. [5]

References

  1. ↑ Varshney, R.; Smetacek, P. A Synoptic Catalogue of the Butterflies of India (2015 ed.). New Delhi: Butterfly Research Centre, Bhimtal and Indinov Publishing. p. 43.
  2. ↑ A list of butterflies of the Palni hills. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society.
  3. ↑ W. H., Evans (1949). A Catalogue of the Hesperiidae from Europe, Asia, and Australia in the British Museum. London: British Museum (Natural History). Department of Entomology. p. 257.
  4. 1 2 Public Domain One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain: Swinhoe, Charles (1912–1913). Lepidoptera Indica. Vol. X. London: Lovell Reeve and Co. p. 281.
  5. ↑ "Thoressa evershedi Evans, 1910 – Travancore Tawny Ace". Butterflies of India, v. 2.35. Indian Foundation for Butterflies. Retrieved 1 April 2018.




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