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/2015/01/life-history-of-small-branded-swift.html
https://www.ifoundbutterflies.org/sp/821/Pelopidas-mathias?tab=1

P. agna.
https://www.ifoundbutterflies.org/#!/sp/1088/Pelopidas-agna



TL Seow: Cheers.

[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/646/Ampittia-dioscorides


TL Seow: Cheers.

[butterflyrajib]

Thanks for your valuable feedback.