Celaenorrhinus leucocera

Common spotted flat
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Hesperiidae
Genus:	Celaenorrhinus
Species:	C. leucocera
Binomial name
Celaenorrhinus leucocera (Kollar, 1848)

Celaenorrhinus leucocera, the common spotted flat, is a butterfly belonging to the family Hesperiidae. It is a common butterfly generally found in the wet forested hills of southern Asia, from India and the Himalayas east through Indo-China. The upper surfaces of the wings are dark brown with white bands and small white spots towards the tip of the wings.

This butterfly is found in Myanmar, Thailand, western China, Malaysia and the Indonesian archipelago (Borneo, Sumatra, Java and Bali).

It occurs in India wherever its preferred forest habitat - moist, deciduous, semi-evergreen and secondary evergreen forests with a basically natural, varied herb and shrub vegetation - is present. It ranges from South India through Maharashtra to Bengal, and along the Himalayas from Kashmir to Assam and Arunachal Pradesh (Mishmi Hills); and also the Andaman islands. It flies from plains level to 8,000 feet (2,400 m) in the Himalayas.

The type locality of this species is the Himalayas.

It is common. It is the commonest of all Celaenorrhinus species occurring in India.

The best period to see the common spotted flat is during the rainy season and months immediately after. The population decreases as winter and summer progresses and rises once again at the next monsoon.

The butterfly has a wingspan of 45 to 55 mm. It is dark brown above. The forewing has a band of more or less connected discal spots, which are white and semi-transparent. Of this band, two spots, i.e. the one in end cell, and that at 2; are rectangular and connected to more or less degree. The butterfly also has small white spots in the apex of the forewing. The hindwing has a few obscure, opaque yellow spots. The hindwing margins are chequered black and white.

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