Common Redeye

Matapa aria

''Matapa aria'', commonly known as the Common Redeye, is a butterfly belonging to the family Hesperiidae.
Skipper Butterfly, the common redeye (Matapa Aria)  Common Redeye,Geotagged,Indonesia,Matapa aria,Winter

Appearance

Male and female chocolate brown. Male. Upperside, pale brown ; forewing with a short impressed comma-like grey streak obliquely beneath the cell. Cilia yellowish white. Underside bright ferruginous brown. Palpi ferruginous brown.

Female. Upperside dark chocolate brown without the impressed streak ; cilia of hindwing pale orange yellow. Underside bright ferruginous brown. The larvae feed on ''Bambusa striata'', ''Ochlandra travancorica'' and ''Ochlandra scriptoria''.

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Taxonomy
KingdomAnimalia
DivisionArthropoda
ClassInsecta
OrderLepidoptera
FamilyHesperiidae
GenusMatapa
SpeciesM. aria
Photographed in
Indonesia
India