ID requested for Unknown caterpiller

[butterflyrajib]

GREETINGS FROM INDIA!!!

Dear Sir/Madam,
I am sending herewith one caterpillar ( Left one is before instar and right one is next instar) for identification purpose. Larval host plant is Imperata cylindrical. Caterpiller captured from Kolkata, June 2020.

Regards,
Rajib Dey

[Psyche]

Pelopidas agna.
4th instar.

The larvae of P. agna & mathias are rather similar but the marking are darker in P. mathias & reddish brown in P. agna.

P. mathias
https://butterflycircle.blogspot.com...ded-swift.html
https://www.ifoundbutterflies.org/sp...-mathias?tab=1

P. agna.
https://www.ifoundbutterflies.org/#!...Pelopidas-agna



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[butterflyrajib]

Thank you Sir.I want to learn about Ampittia dioscorides all early stages Caterpiller description.Requesting you to please guide me if available with you.

[Psyche]

Thank you Sir.I want to learn about Ampittia dioscorides all early stages Caterpiller description.Requesting you to please guide me if available with you.

I have only raise a handful of species before & so in no position to talk about life histories of most butterflies.
Ampittia dioscorides LH is fully shown in the website below.
https://www.ifoundbutterflies.org/sp...ia-dioscorides


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[butterflyrajib]

Thanks for your valuable feedback.