Kingdom Animalia Class Insecta Family Hesperiidae Scientific name Baracus vittatus | Phylum Arthropoda Order Lepidoptera Genus Baracus Rank Subspecies | |
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Similar Butterflies and moths, Baoris farri, Pelopidas conjuncta, Hyarotis adrastus, Notocrypta paralysos | ||
Baracus vittatus, commonly known as Hampson's hedge-hopper, is a butterfly belonging to the family Hesperiidae. It is found in India and Sri Lanka.
Description
In 1891, Edward Yerbury Watson described this butterfly as:
Male and female. Upperside dark olive-brown. Male with the lower basal and discal area of both wings olive-grey, and a small subapical spot of the same colour also on the forewing. Female: forewing with a small olive -grey subapical spot and slender macular discal streak: hindwing with less distinct olive-grey lower basal and discal area. Underside ferruginous, the veins narrowly lined with paler ferruginous: forewing with the basal area dusky brown: hindwing with a longitudinal medial yellow fascia from base of cell, and less distinct short yellow discal streak between the veins. Body, palpi, and legs olive-brown, paler beneath.