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The Immaculate or Suffused Snow Flat

Tagiades gana of the family Hesperiidae.

Photo by VincentVanur
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Field Notes

Description:

Male and female have a dark brown ground colour. The male has on the upperside of the forewing, three minute semi-transparent spots obliquely before the apex ; a transverse discal series of streaks, a small patch within the cell, one near the base of the wing, and exterior margin blackish ; hindwing with the lower third pure white which is straightly separated from the brown of the basal portion ; apical margin and three spots on the upper part of the disc, black, and two spots on the middle of the white anterior margin. Underside paler brown, semi-transparent spots on forewing as above : hindwing white suffused with brown along the anterior margin : upper discal and marginal spots as above black. Female paler. Upperside somewhat greyish-brown ; forewing with spots and blackish discal streaks, and hindwing with upper discal spots as in male : exterior margin of hindwing greyish-white. Underside as in male. Cilia of both sexes pure white on the lower portion of the hindwing, the rest brown.
(Watson, 1891) (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tagiades_gana)

Habitat:

On and near the Western Ghats

Notes:

sitting with quaker butterflies

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PublishedJune 23, 2013

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