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Tagiades litigiosa

Water snow flat
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From the Western Ghats
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Hesperiidae
Genus: Tagiades
Species: T. litigiosa
Binomial name
Tagiades litigiosa
(Möschler, 1878)

Tagiades litigiosa, the water snow flat, is a butterfly belonging to the family Hesperiidae which is found in India.

The larvae feed on Dioscorea oppositifolia, Dioscorea alata and Smilax species.

Ventral view

Larva case

Larva

Pupa



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