Description

• Common Name : Common Spotted Flat
• Scientific Name : Celaenorrhinus leucocera (Kollar)
• Family : HESPERIIDAE
• Wingspan : 45-55mm
• Colour : Dark brown with a series of large, semi-transparent white spots across the fore wing, which are joine to each other.
• Habit : It keeps very close to ground. Usually settles on the underside of leaves, flies close to the ground. When active, it alternates between sun and shade; it flies fast and low; It visits flowers and its long proboscis permits it to feed from flowers having long tubular corollas.
• Larval Host Plants : Asystasia gangetica, Ecbolium linguistrinum, Eranthemum roseum, Carvia callosa, Thelepaepale ixiocephala
• Location : Throughout West Bengal

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