Upperside glossy luteous olive-brown; cilia yellowish-cinereous. Male. Forewing with two pale semi-diaphanous spots at end of the cell, three contiguous spots obliquely before the apex, three upper discal spots, below which is a narrow white oblique streak or brand ; hindwing with three small yellow upper discal spots, the two lowest small. Female. Forewing with a lower or fourth discal spot, and a small dot below the third spot ; the spots angled outward : hindwing as in male. Underside greenish-ochreous, brown on hind border of forewing and anal lobe ; marginal line brown and prominent : forewing with the lower spot diffused and white : hindwing with the upper discal white spot large and quadrate, four spots below in a slightly linear position, the upper spot indistinct ; a white spot also at upper end of cell, and a smaller indistinct spot above it
32-34 mm
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Language Vernacular name
EnglishLarge Branded Swift
മലയാളംപെരുങ്കുറി ശരശലഭം
ไทยหนอนม้วนใบข้าวใหญ่
中文近赭穀弄蝶
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Language Website Authors
Butterflies of India Kunte, K., S. Sondhi, and P. Roy
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