Tagiades insularis grandis Evans, 1937

Collins, Steve C., 2017, Observations on the biology of Afrotropical Hesperiidae (Lepidoptera). Part 12. New information and corrections, Zootaxa 4312 (3), pp. 471-496 : 479-480

Tagiades insularis grandis Evans, 1937

I. Bampton reared this subspecies from a pupa collected on Dioscorea sp., Grande Comoro Island , 10 Jan 2010.

The emerged pupa is similar to that of T. i. insularis ( Figure 12 ), but the white markings on the wings are less developed in this individual.

Figures

FIGURE 12. Pupa of Tagiades insularis collected on Dioscorea sp., Tsaranoro Valley, southern Madagascar [SCC]. 1, dorsal view, 9 Apr 2013; 2, lateral view, 9 Apr 2013; 3, ventral view, 10 Apr 2013.