Baracus vittatus

Baracus vittatus, the hedge-hopper, is a butterfly belonging to the family Hesperiidae. It is found in India and Sri Lanka.

Description
In 1891, Edward Yerbury Watson described this butterfly as: "Male and female. Upperside dark olive-brown. Male with the lower basal and discal area of both wings olive-grey, and a small subapical spot of the same colour also on the forewing. Female: forewing with a small olive -grey subapical spot and slender macular discal streak: hindwing with less distinct olive-grey lower basal and discal area. Underside ferruginous, the veins narrowly lined with paler ferruginous: forewing with the basal area dusky brown: hindwing with a longitudinal medial yellow fascia from base of cell, and less distinct short yellow discal streak between the veins. Body, palpi, and legs olive-brown, paler beneath."

- Edward Yerbury Watson

Subspecies

 * B. v. vittatus (Felder, 1862) Sri Lanka
 * B. v. subditus Moore, [1884] south India
 * B. v. septentrionum Wood-Mason & de Nicéville, [1887] Sikkim to northeast India
 * B. v. hampsoni Elwes & Edwards, 1897 (Hampson's hedge hopper) south India
 * B. v. gotha  Evans, 1949 Tamil Nadu

Life history
The larvae feed on Gramineae.