Giant red eyed caterpillar or Gangara thyrsis caterpillar, in Kaziranga

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Giant red eyed caterpillar or Gangara thyrsis caterpillar found in Kaziranga national Park, Assam, India. Gangara thyrsis, commonly known as the Giant Redeye, is a butterfly belonging to the family Hesperiidae. It breeds on a number of palm species. It is found in SriLanka and India. The Male and female dark are chocolate-brown. With a Forewing consisting of bright yellow semi-transparent quadrate spots disposed triangularly, the first is large and occupying half the cell, the second also large, obliquely beneath and partly beyond, the third small and obliquely above the second ; above the last are three smaller spots obliquely before the apex, the two upper being geminated ; in some specimens beneath the subapical spots is a small dot, and on the posterior margin another, both similar to