Baracus vittatus

Baracus vittatus, the hedge-hopper, is a butterfly belonging to the family Hesperiidae. It is found in India and Sri Lanka.[1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8]

Hedge-hopper
From Kozhikode, Kerala
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Arthropoda
Class:
Insecta
Order:
Lepidoptera
Family:
Hesperiidae
Genus:
Baracus
Species:
B. vittatus
Binomial name
Baracus vittatus
(Felder, 1862)

Description

In 1891, Edward Yerbury Watson described this butterfly as:

Male and female. Upperside dark olive-brown. Male with the lower basal and discal area of both wings olive-grey, and a small subapical spot of the same colour also on the forewing. Female: forewing with a small olive -grey subapical spot and slender macular discal streak: hindwing with less distinct olive-grey lower basal and discal area. Underside ferruginous, the veins narrowly lined with paler ferruginous: forewing with the basal area dusky brown: hindwing with a longitudinal medial yellow fascia from base of cell, and less distinct short yellow discal streak between the veins. Body, palpi, and legs olive-brown, paler beneath.

— Edward Yerbury Watson[9]

Subspecies
  • B. v. vittatus (Felder, 1862) Sri Lanka
  • B. v. subditus Moore, [1884] south India
  • B. v. septentrionum Wood-Mason & de Nicéville, [1887] Sikkim to northeast India
  • B. v. hampsoni Elwes & Edwards, 1897 (Hampson's hedge hopper)[2] south India
  • B. v. gotha Evans, 1949 Tamil Nadu[6][7]

Life history

The larvae feed on Gramineae.[10]

  • Larva
  • Chrysalis
  • Chrysalis
  • Imago (dorsal view)
  • Imago (ventral view)

References
  1. Gamage, R. 2014. An Illustrated Field Guide to the Fauna of Sri Lanka, Butterflies. Akalanka Dunwathta. Baddegama
  2. Savela, Markku. "Baracus vittatus (Felder, 1862)". Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms. Retrieved June 30, 2018.
  3. Moore, Frederic (1880). The Lepidoptera of Ceylon. London: L. Reeve & co. p. 162.
  4. Elwes & Edwards (1897). Transactions of the Zoological Society of London. London: Zoological Society of London. pp. 169–171.
  5. Moore, Frederic (1884). Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. London: Zoological Society of London. p. 534.
  6. 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. pp. 237–238.
  7. Varshney, R.; Smetacek, P. A Synoptic Catalogue of the Butterflies of India (2015 ed.). New Delhi: Butterfly Research Centre, Bhimtal and Indinov Publishing. pp. 40–41.
  8. One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a work now in the public domain: Swinhoe, Charles (1912–1913). Lepidoptera Indica. Vol. X. London: Lovell Reeve and Co. pp. 130–133.CS1 maint: date format (link)
  9. E. Y., Watson (1891). Hesperiidae Indicae: being a reprint of descriptions of the Hesperiidae of India, Burma, and Ceylon. Madras: Vest and Company. p. 151.
  10. Robinson, G. S., P. R. Ackery, I. J. Kitching, G. W. Beccaloni & L. M. Hernández, 2010. HOSTS - A Database of the World's Lepidopteran Hostplants. Natural History Museum, London. nhm hosts

See also
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