Tagiades gana
Species of butterfly
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Tagiades gana, the immaculate snow flat, large snow flat[1][2] or suffused snow flat,[2] is a butterfly belonging to the family Hesperiidae found in Indomalayan realm.[1][3][2][4][5]
| Suffused snow flat | |
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| Western Ghats specimen | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Clade: | Pancrustacea |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Hesperiidae |
| Genus: | Tagiades |
| Species: | T. gana |
| Binomial name | |
| Tagiades gana (Moore, 1865) | |
Description
In 1891, Edward Yerbury Watson gave a detailed 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.
— E. Y. Watson[6]
Dioscorea alata is a host plant for the larvae.[7]
Gallery
Larva on Dioscorea alata
Pupa
On flower
Underside
Museum specimens from Malaya
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