Description

• Common Name : Water Snow Flat
• Scientific Name : Tagiades litigiosa (moschler)
• Family : HESPERIIDAE
• Wingspan : 37-44mm
• Colour : Dark brown with a few minute semi-transparent white spots on UPF.
• Habit : Fast, jerky and straight flier, common along forest paths, remains in the shade and basks on the underside of a leaf. Comes to damp patches and flowers.Territorial, returns to same perch after patrolling.
• Larval Host Plants : Dioscorea oppositifolia, Smilax spp.
• Location : North Bengal

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