Subspecies in India
No subspecies are listed under this species, which is also known as the Bicolour Ace. It was traditionally treated as a species under the genus Sovia (Sovia hyrtacus) but was recently moved to the newly raised genus, Halpemorpha Huang, Fan & Chiba, 2019 (Huang et al. 2019).
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This species is endemic to the Western Ghats.
| State | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | No date |
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| Karnataka | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||
| Kerala | 4 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 24 | |||||
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| Total | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 24 |
Poaceae (Wynter-Blyth 1957; Robinson et al. 2010), Bambusa spp. (V.C. Balakrishnan pers. obs. 2017),Ochlandra scriptoria (Kalesh & Prakash 2015), Ochlandra talbotii (Bell 1926), Ochlandra travancorica (Kalesh & Prakash 2007) (Poaceae). Kydia calycina (Robinson et al. 2010)(Malvaceae) is also reported but needs verification.
Key Reference:
Nitin, R., V. C. Balakrishnan, P. V. Churi, S. Kalesh, S. Prakash, and K. Kunte. 2018. Larval host plants of the butterflies of the Western Ghats, India. Journal of Threatened Taxa, 10:11495–11550.
For the complete list of larval host plants of Indian butterflies, see the page on larval host plants.
Key Reference:
Nitin, R., V. C. Balakrishnan, P. V. Churi, S. Kalesh, S. Prakash, and K. Kunte. 2018. Larval host plants of the butterflies of the Western Ghats, India. Journal of Threatened Taxa, 10:11495–11550.
For the complete list of larval host plants of Indian butterflies, see the page on larval host plants.
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Huang, Z.-F., H. Chiba, J. Jin, A. G. Kizhakke, M. Wang, K. Kunte, and X. Fan. 2019. A multilocus phylogenetic framework of the tribe Aeromachini (Lepidoptera: Hesperiidae: Hesperiinae), with implications for taxonomy and biogeography. Systematic Entomology, 44:163–178.
Page citation
Saji, K., B. Valappil, and K. Kunte 2022. Halpemorpha hyrtacus (de Nicéville, 1897) – White-branded Ace. In Kunte, K., S. Sondhi, and P. Roy (Chief Editors). Butterflies of India, v. 3.06. Published by the Indian Foundation for Butterflies. URL: https://www.ifoundbutterflies.org/halpemorpha-hyrtacus, accessed 2022/08/09.