Potanthus pseudomaesa
| Indian dart | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Hesperiidae |
| Genus: | Potanthus |
| Species: | P. pseudomaesa
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| Binomial name | |
| Potanthus pseudomaesa (Moore, 1881)
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Potanthus pseudomaesa,[1][2] commonly known as the Indian dart,[3][4] is a species of butterfly belonging to the family Hesperiidae. Iit is found in India and Sri Lanka.[3][4] The larvae are known to feed on Axonopus compressus.[5]
References
[edit]- ^ Moore, Frederic (1880). The Lepidoptera of Ceylon. Vol. I. London: L. Reeve & co. p. 170.
- ^ 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.
- ^ a b 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.
- ^ a b Savela, Markku. "Potanthus pseudomaesa (Moore, [1881])". Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms. Retrieved July 3, 2018.
- ^ 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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