Tagiades litigiosa
Water snow flat | |
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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, 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.
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References
- ↑ 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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