Description

• Common Name : Dark Yellow-banded Flat
• Scientific Name : Celaenorrhinus aurivittata (Moore)
• Family : HESPERIIDAE
• Wingspan : 40-46mm
• Colour : Overall Chocolate brown, UPF has a yellow discal band
• Habit : Prefers fairly open forests. Flies in a more leisurely manner than some of the Flats and settles between flights with outspread wings on the underside of a leaf.
• Larval Host Plants : Clerodendron spp.
• Location : North Bengal

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