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''Tagiades gana'', commonly known as the Immaculate/Large/Suffused Snow Flat, is a butterfly belonging to the family Hesperiidae. ==Description== :''See glossary for terms used.'' Watson (1891) gives a detailed description as follows :-〔Watson, E. Y. (1891).〕 Male and female have a dark brown ground colour. The male has on the upperside of the forewing, three minute semi-transparent spots obliquely before the apex ; a transverse discal series of streaks, a small patch within the cell, one near the base of the wing, and exterior margin blackish ; hindwing with the lower third pure white which is straightly separated from the brown of the basal portion ; apical margin and three spots on the upper part of the disc, black, and two spots on the middle of the white anterior margin. Underside paler brown, semi-transparent spots on forewing as above : hindwing white suffused with brown along the anterior margin : upper discal and marginal spots as above black. Female paler. Upperside somewhat greyish-brown ; forewing with spots and blackish discal streaks, and hindwing with upper discal spots as in male : exterior margin of hindwing greyish-white. Underside as in male. Cilia of both sexes pure white on the lower portion of the hindwing, the rest brown. ''Dioscorea alata'' is a host plant for the larvae. File:Tagiades gana 11.JPG|Larva on ''Dioscorea alata'' File:Tagiades gana 14.JPG|Larva on ''Dioscorea alata'' File:Tagiades gana 15.JPG|Pupa File:Tagiades gana Wynaad.jpg|On flower File:Tagiades gana at Kadavoor.jpg|Basking File:Tagiades gana 04.JPG|Underside File:Tagiadesgana2CRW 5505-24 (2).jpg|Museum specimens from Malaya 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Tagiades gana」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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