''Thoressa evershedi'', the Evershed's ace, is a

butterfly Butterflies are insects in the macrolepidopteran clade Rhopalocera from the order Lepidoptera, which also includes moths. Adult butterflies have large, often brightly coloured wings, and conspicuous, fluttering flight. The group comprise ...

belonging to the family Hesperiidae. W. H. Evans described it from Palni Hills in 1910 and named it after Evershed as he was the first person to collect it.

Description

Range

The butterfly occurs in western

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, eastern Kerala. It is an occasional visitor to south-western

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References

e Butterflies of Asia {{hesperiinae-stub