Taractrocera ceramas, commonly known as the Tamil grass dart, is a species of butterfly belonging to the family Hesperiidae. It is found from the Western Ghats to Mumbai, in the hills of southern India, in northeast India to northern Burma and in south-eastern China.
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Subspecies Taractrocera ceramas nicevillei Watson, 1893 (Maharashtra) Taractrocera ceramas oberthuri Elwes & Edwards, 1897 (Anaimalai Hills, Tamil Nadu) Taractrocera ceramas atropunctata Watson, 1896 (north-eastern India, northern Burma) Taractrocera ceramas ceramas (Nilgiris, Kerala, Tamil Nadu, part of Karnataka) Taractrocera ceramas media Evans, 1934 (Uttara Kannada, Goa) Taractrocera ceramas thelma Evans, 1934 (Kwang Si, China)
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