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Monday, November 28, 2011

Tropic Dart (Potanthus Confucius satra)

Common butterfly of all elevations of the island. Larva feeds on Panicum maximum and  Axonopus compressus (Only when offered) of family Poaceae.

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2 comments:

  1. silent momentsDecember 1, 2011 at 10:40 PM

    seems familiar....Is this the same one I have put up in my blog? but the pattern seems different.

    http://patalidev.blogspot.com/2010/08/bugs-life.html

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  2. BushanaDecember 2, 2011 at 10:05 AM

    Patali
    Yes pattern seems different since it is separate species. Butterfly in your post is Common Grass Dart (Taractrocera maevius) which is also belong to the same Hesperiidae family to which this one also belong.

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