Matapa aria

Matapa aria, the common redeye,^[2] is a species of butterfly belonging to the family Hesperiidae. It is found in India and Southeast Asia.^[2][3][4]

Common redeye
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Hesperiidae
Genus:	Matapa
Species:	M. aria
Binomial name
Matapa aria (Moore, 1865)[1]
Synonyms
Ismene aria Moore, [1866] Hesperia neglecta Mabille, 1876

Description

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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.^[5]

The larvae feed on Bambusa striata, Ochlandra travancorica and Ochlandra scriptoria.^[6]

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