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Checklist of Pryginae (subfamily) Butterflies of India

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List of butterflies of India (Pyrginae). In Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=List_of_butterflies_of_India_(Pyrginae)&oldid=504321293

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This is a list of the butterflies of India belonging to the subfamily pyrginae of the family Hesperiidae. Butterflies of this subfamily are commonly referred to as Flats because of their habit of holding the wings flat at all times. They are also known as angles, elfs or grizzled skippers. A total of 71 species belonging to twenty one genera are found in India.

Author included references:
Cited: Marrku Savela's Website on Lepidoptera. Page on genus Apostictopterus.
Others: In Print -
* (1932) The Identification of Indian Butterflies. 2nd Ed, (i to x, pp454, 9 figs, Plates I to XXXII), Bombay Natural History Society, Mumbai, India.
* (1992) Common Butterflies of India. WWF-India and Oxford University Press, Mumbai, India.
* (1992) Butterflies of Sikkim Himalaya and their Natural History (pp 217). Sikkim Nature Conservation Foundation.
* (2000) Butterflies of Peninsular India, (i to xviii, pp254, Plates 1 to 32) Universities Press (India) Ltd, Hyderabad (reprint 2006). ISBN 81-7371-354-5
* (1957) Butterflies of the Indian Region, Bombay Natural History Society, Mumbai, India.Online
Online -
* (Editors). 2003. The Global Lepidoptera Names Index (LepIndex). World Wide Web electronic publication. http://www.nhm.ac.uk/entomology/lepindex (accessed 26 September 2007).
* Website on Lepidoptera http://www.nic.funet.fi/pub/sci/bio/life/index.html (accessed 26 September 2007)

Checklist Stats:
Number of species - 71.

Checklist
s_no category group scientific_name author_year common_name extra notes
1 Capila - The Dawnflies Orthopaetus group (the Dawnflies) Capila lidderdali (Elwes, 1888) Lidderdale's Dawnfly
2 Capila - The Dawnflies Capila phanaeus (Hewitson, 1867) Fulvous Dawnfly
3 Capila - The Dawnflies Capila group (the Striped Dawnflies) Capila zennara (Moore, 1865) Pale striped Dawnfly
4 Capila - The Dawnflies Capila jayadeva (Moore, 1865) Striped Dawnfly
5 Capila - The Dawnflies Crossiura group (the Fringed Dawnfly) Capila pennicillatum (de Nicéville, 1893) Fringed Dawnfly
6 Capila - The Dawnflies Calliana group (the White Dawnfly) Capila pieridoides (Moore, 1878) White Dawnfly (Calliana pieridoides as per LepIndex[8])
7 Caprona - The Angles Caprona ransonnetti (Felder, 1868) Golden Angle
8 Caprona - The Angles Caprona agama (Moore , 1857) Spotted Angle
9 Carcharodus - The Mallow Skipper Carcharodus alceae (Esper, 1780) Mallow Skipper
10 Carcharodus - The Mallow Skipper Carcharodus dravira (Moore, [1875])
11 Celaenorrhinus - The Spotted Flats Celaenorrhinus ambareesa (Moore, 1865) Malabar Spotted Flat
12 Celaenorrhinus - The Spotted Flats Celaenorrhinus asmara (Butler, [1879])[13] White-banded Flat
13 Celaenorrhinus - The Spotted Flats Celaenorrhinus aspersa Leech, 1891 Large Streaked Flat
14 Celaenorrhinus - The Spotted Flats Celaenorrhinus aurivittata (Moore, [1879]) Dark Yellow-banded Flat
15 Celaenorrhinus - The Spotted Flats Celaenorrhinus dhanada (Moore, 1865) Himalayan Yellow Flat
16 Celaenorrhinus - The Spotted Flats Celaenorrhinus ficulnea (Hewitson, 1868) Velvet Flat
17 Celaenorrhinus - The Spotted Flats Celaenorrhinus leucocera (Kollar , 1848) Common Spotted Flat
18 Celaenorrhinus - The Spotted Flats Celaenorrhinus morena Evans, 1949 Pied Flat
19 Celaenorrhinus - The Spotted Flats Celaenorrhinus nigricans (de Nicéville, 1885) Small Banded Flat
20 Celaenorrhinus - The Spotted Flats Celaenorrhinus patula de Nicéville, 1889 Large Spotted Flat
21 Celaenorrhinus - The Spotted Flats Celaenorrhinus pero Leech, 1894 Mussoorie Pied Flat
22 Celaenorrhinus - The Spotted Flats Celaenorrhinus pulomaya (Moore, 1865) Multispotted Flat
23 Celaenorrhinus - The Spotted Flats Celaenorrhinus putra (Moore, 1865) Common Spotted Flat
24 Celaenorrhinus - The Spotted Flats Celaenorrhinus pyrrha de Nicéville, 1889 Double Spotted Flat
25 Celaenorrhinus - The Spotted Flats Celaenorrhinus ratna Frühstorfer, 1909
26 Celaenorrhinus - The Spotted Flats Celaenorrhinus ruficornis (Mabille , 1878)[13] Tamil Spotted Flat
27 Celaenorrhinus - The Spotted Flats Celaenorrhinus spilothyrus (Felder, 1868) Black Flat
28 Celaenorrhinus - The Spotted Flats Celaenorrhinus badia (Hewitson, 1877) Scarce Banded Flat not listed in the TOLWeb page for genus Celaenorrhinus.
29 Celaenorrhinus - The Spotted Flats Celaenorrhinus flavocincta (de Nicéville, 1887) Bhutan Flat not listed in the TOLWeb page for genus Celaenorrhinus.
30 Celaenorrhinus - The Spotted Flats Celaenorrhinus munda (Moore, 1884) Himalayan Spotted Flat not listed in the TOLWeb page for genus Celaenorrhinus.
31 Chamunda - The Olive Flat Chamunda chamunda (Moore, 1865) Olive Flat
32 Coladenia - The Pied Flats Coladenia agni (de Nicéville, 1883) Brown Pied Flat
33 Coladenia - The Pied Flats Cogia indrani (Moore, 1865) correctly Coladenia indrani Tricolour Pied Flat
34 Coladenia - The Pied Flats Coladenia agnioides Elwes & Edwards, 1897 Elwes' Pied Flat
35 Ctenoptilum - The Tawny Angle Ctenoptilum vasava (Moore, 1865) Tawny Angle
36 Darpa - The Hairy Angle Darpa hanria (Moore, 1865) Hairy Angle
37 Darpa - The Hairy Angle Darpa striata (Druce, 1873)
38 Darpa - The Hairy Angle Darpa pteria (Hewitson, 1868)
39 Gerosis - Yellow-breast Flats Gerosis bhagava (Moore, [1866]) Common Yellow-breast Flat
40 Gerosis - Yellow-breast Flats Gerosis phisara (Moore, 1884) Dusky Yellow-breast Flat
41 Gerosis - Yellow-breast Flats Gerosis sinica (C. Felder & R. Felder, 1862) Chinese Yellow-breast Flat
42 Gomalia - The Marbled Skipper Gomalia elma (Trimen, 1862) African Mallow/Marbled Skipper
43 Lobocla - The Marbled Flat Lobocla liliana (Atkinson, 1871) Marbled Flat
44 Mooreana - The Yellow Flat Mooreana trichoneura (M. t. pralaya, (Moore, 1865)) Yellow Flat
45 Odina - The Zigzag Flat Odina decoratus Hewitson, 1867 Zigzag Flat
46 Odina - The Zigzag Flat Odina hieroglyphica (Butler, 1870)
47 Odontoptilum - The Chestnut Angle Odontoptilum angulata (Felder, 1862) Chestnut/Banded Angle
48 Pseudocoladenia Pseudocoladenia dan (Fabricius, 1787) Fulvous Pied Flat previously Coladenia dan
49 Pseudocoladenia Pseudocoladenia festa (Evans, 1949)
50 Pseudocoladenia Pseudocoladenia fatua (Evans, 1949)
51 Pyrgus - The Grizzled Skippers Pyrgus alpinus (Erschoff, 1874)
52 Pyrgus - The Grizzled Skippers Pyrgus cashmirensis Moore, 1874
53 Sarangesa - The Small Flats Sarangesa dasahara (Moore, 1865) Common Small Flat
54 Sarangesa - The Small Flats Sarangesa purendra (Moore, 1882) Spotted Small Flat
55 Sarangesa - The Small Flats Sarangesa sati de Nicéville, 1891 Tiny Flat
56 Satarupa - The White Flats Satarupa gopala (Moore, 1865) Large White Flat
57 Satarupa - The White Flats Satarupa splendens Tytler, 1914
58 Seseria - The White Flats Seseria dohertyi Watson, 1863 Himalayan White Flat
59 Seseria - The White Flats Seseria sambara (Moore, 1865) Sikkim White Flat
60 Spialia - Grizzled Skippers Spialia galba (Fabricius, 1793) Indian Grizzled Skipper or Indian Skipper
61 Spialia - Grizzled Skippers Spialia doris (Walker, 1870) Desert Grizzled Skipper
62 Spialia - Grizzled Skippers Spialia zebra (Butler, 1888) Zebra Grizzled Skipper
63 Tagiades - The Snow Flats Tagiades cohaerens Mabille, 1914 Flat (T. c. cynthia Evans, 1934)
64 Tagiades - The Snow Flats Tagiades distans Moore Ceylon Snow Flat
65 Tagiades - The Snow Flats Tagiades gana (Moore, 1865) Immaculate/Large/Suffused Snow Flat
66 Tagiades - The Snow Flats Tagiades japetus (Stoll, 1781) Common Snow Flat
67 Tagiades - The Snow Flats Tagiades litigiosa (Möschler, 1878) Water Snow Flat
68 Tagiades - The Snow Flats Tagiades menaka (Moore, 1865) Spotted Snow Flat
69 Tagiades - The Snow Flats Tagiades parra Frühstorfer, 1910
70 Tagiades - The Snow Flats Tagiades toba de Nicéville, 1896
71 Tapena - The Black Angle Tapena thwaitesi Moore, 1881 Black Angle
References

Print:
Evans, W.H. (1932) The Identification of Indian Butterflies. 2nd Ed, (i to x, pp454, 9 figs, Plates I to XXXII), Bombay Natural History Society, Mumbai, India.
Gay,Thomas; Kehimkar,Isaac & Punetha,J.C. (1992) Common Butterflies of India. WWF-India and Oxford University Press, Mumbai, India.
Haribal, Meena. (1992) Butterflies of Sikkim Himalaya and their Natural History (pp 217). Sikkim Nature Conservation Foundation.
Kunte, Krushnamegh. (2000) Butterflies of Peninsular India, (i to xviii, pp254, Plates 1 to 32) Universities Press (India) Ltd, Hyderabad (reprint 2006). ISBN 81-7371-354-5
Wynter-Blyth, M.A. (1957) Butterflies of the Indian Region, Bombay Natural History Society, Mumbai, India.
Online:
Beccaloni, G. W., Scoble, M. J., Robinson, G. S. & Pitkin, B. (Editors). 2003. The Global Lepidoptera Names Index (LepIndex). World Wide Web electronic publication. [1] (accessed 26 September 2007).
Savela, Marrku Website on Lepidoptera [2] (accessed 26 September 2007)

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