Indian dart
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Hesperiidae
Genus: Potanthus
Species:
P. pseudomaesa
Binomial name
Potanthus pseudomaesa
(Moore, 1881)

Potanthus pseudomaesa,[1][2] commonly known as the Indian dart,[3][4] is a butterfly belonging to the family Hesperiidae found in India and Sri Lanka.[3][4] The larvae are known to feed on Axonopus compressus.[5]

References

  1. ↑ Moore, Frederic (1880). The Lepidoptera of Ceylon. Vol. I. London: L. Reeve & co. p. 170.
  2. ↑ Evans, W. H. (1949). A Catalogue of the Hesperiidae from Europe, Asia, and Australia in the British Museum. London: British Museum (Natural History). Department of Entomology. p. 377.
  3. 1 2 Varshney, R.K.; Smetacek, Peter (2015). A Synoptic Catalogue of the Butterflies of India. New Delhi: Butterfly Research Centre, Bhimtal & Indinov Publishing, New Delhi. pp. 62–64. doi:10.13140/RG.2.1.3966.2164. ISBN 978-81-929826-4-9.
  4. 1 2 Savela, Markku. "Potanthus pseudomaesa (Moore, [1881])". Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms. Retrieved July 3, 2018.
  5. ↑ 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". Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society. 104 (2): 235–238.


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