Kanara swift | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Lepidoptera |
Family: | Hesperiidae |
Genus: | Caltoris |
Species: | C. canaraica
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Binomial name | |
Caltoris canaraica (
Moore, 1883)
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Synonyms | |
Parnara canaraica |
Caltoris canaraica, the Kanara swift, [1] is a butterfly belonging to the family Hesperiidae. [2] [1] [3] [4]
This skipper is found in Southern India ( Kerala, Karnataka Tamilnadu and south-western Andhra Pradesh). [1]
Male and Female. Upperside dark brown, basal area olive-brown. Male: Forewing with two small oval semi-diaphanous white spots at the end of the cell, three spots obliquely before the apex, and three on the disk; hindwing without makings ; cilia brownish-cinereous. Under side paler brown, irrorated with ochreous scales which are thickly disposed along the costa and apex of forewing and across discal area of hindwing: forewing marked as above, also with a small whitish spot above hind margin: hindwing with two discal white spots. Female: forewing with larger spots than in the male, also with a minute dot beneath the lower discal spot and a triangular yellow spot above hind margin ; hindwing with three discal semi-diaphanous spots. Underside: forewing as above: hindwing with four discal white spots, and a fifth at end of the cell.
Habitat: Canara (Ward)
The larva (caterpillar) has been recorded on Bambusa bambos, Bambusa vulgaris and Pseudoxytenanthera monadelpha. [6]
Kanara swift | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Lepidoptera |
Family: | Hesperiidae |
Genus: | Caltoris |
Species: | C. canaraica
|
Binomial name | |
Caltoris canaraica (
Moore, 1883)
| |
Synonyms | |
Parnara canaraica |
Caltoris canaraica, the Kanara swift, [1] is a butterfly belonging to the family Hesperiidae. [2] [1] [3] [4]
This skipper is found in Southern India ( Kerala, Karnataka Tamilnadu and south-western Andhra Pradesh). [1]
Male and Female. Upperside dark brown, basal area olive-brown. Male: Forewing with two small oval semi-diaphanous white spots at the end of the cell, three spots obliquely before the apex, and three on the disk; hindwing without makings ; cilia brownish-cinereous. Under side paler brown, irrorated with ochreous scales which are thickly disposed along the costa and apex of forewing and across discal area of hindwing: forewing marked as above, also with a small whitish spot above hind margin: hindwing with two discal white spots. Female: forewing with larger spots than in the male, also with a minute dot beneath the lower discal spot and a triangular yellow spot above hind margin ; hindwing with three discal semi-diaphanous spots. Underside: forewing as above: hindwing with four discal white spots, and a fifth at end of the cell.
Habitat: Canara (Ward)
The larva (caterpillar) has been recorded on Bambusa bambos, Bambusa vulgaris and Pseudoxytenanthera monadelpha. [6]