Freyeria putli (Kollar, 1844)

Sidat, Azaz & Bhatt, Urjit, 2020, Annotated checklist of butterflies of Ankleshwar-an industrial town in Gujarat, India, Check List 16 (4), pp. 997-1015 : 1012

Freyeria putli (Kollar, 1844)

Black-Spotted Grass Jewel

Figure 8F

Material examined. INDIA • Gujarat, Bharuch district, Ankleshwar; transects T-01, T-03 ( Table 1); agricultural hedges or barren/discarded lands.

Identification. Tailless; underside grey to light brown; two larger darker spots along leading edge of under hindwing, besides other spots; under hindwing has sil- ver-edged black spots with orange crowns along outer edge, but the orange crowns are not as conspicuous as in Freyeria putli ; both sexes dark brown on upperside; dif- fers from Freyeria putli in being darker on upperside, with wings more elongate; lacking orange crowns on dark spots at lower tip on upper hindwing.