Bibasis vasutana
| Green Awlet | |
|---|---|
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Hesperiidae |
| Genus: | Bibasis |
| Species: | B. vasutana |
| Binomial name | |
| Bibasis vasutana (Moore, 1865)[1] | |
| Synonyms | |
|
Ismene vasutana Moore, 1865[1] | |
Bibasis vasutana, or the Green Awlet,[2] is a species of hesperid butterfly found in Asia. The butterfly has been reassigned to genus Burara vide Vane-Wright and de Jong (2003) and is now known as Burara vasutana.[3]
Range
The Green Awlet is found in Nepal, the Indian Himalayas, Myanmar, Thailand and Laos.[2]
In India, the butterfly ranges from Kumaon, across Nepal along the Himalayas to Sikkim and Assam and eastwards towards Myanmar.[2][4]
The type locality is Darjeeling in North West Bengal.[2]
Status
'Not Rare' in the Himalayas.[4]
Description
- See glossary for terms used.
The butterfly has a wingspan of 55 to 65 mm.[4]
Watson (1891) gives a detailed description:[5]
- Male. Upperside deep purple brown, paler on the base of the wings ; forewing with orange yellow costal basal streak. Cilia of hindwing broad and bright orange yellow. Underside glossy greyish green, the veins and narrow intermediate parallel lines blackish ; a patch on posterior half of forewing brown bordered above with blue. Third joint of palpi brown, the rest orange yellow. Head, thorax in front and beneath, legs, middle of abdomen beneath, and anal tuft bright orange yellow.
- Female. Upperside darker brown, the base of the wings greyish blue ; forewing with two small semitransparent spots obliquely beneath the extremity.
Habits
Crepescular.[3]
Cited references
- 1 2 Card for Burara vasutana in LepIndex. Accessed 16 October 2007.
- 1 2 3 4 Marrku Savela's Website on Lepidoptera Page on Bibasis genus.
- 1 2 Vane-Wright and de Jong (2003) (see TOL web pages on genus Bibasis genus Burara in the Tree of Life Web Project) state that Bibasis contains just three diurnal species, the crepuscular remainder having been removed to Burara. The species now shifted to Burara are morphologically and behaviorally distinct from Bibasis, within which many authors have formerly included them.
- 1 2 3 Evans,W.H.(1932) The Identification of Indian Butterflies, ser no I 2.15, pg 319.
- ↑ Watson, E. Y. (1891) Hesperiidae indicae.
See also
- Coeliadinae
- Hesperiidae
- List of butterflies of India (Coeliadinae)
- List of butterflies of India (Hesperiidae)
References
- Evans, W.H. (1932) The Identification of Indian Butterflies. 2nd Ed, (i to x, pp454, Plates I to XXXII), Bombay Natural History Society, Mumbai, India.
- Watson, E. Y. (1891) Hesperiidae indicae. Vest and Co. Madras.
Online
- Beccaloni, G. W., Scoble, M. J., Robinson, G. S. & Pitkin, B. (Editors). 2003. The Global Lepidoptera Names Index (LepIndex). World Wide Web electronic publication. (accessed 22 September 2007).
- Brower, Andrew V. Z. and Warren, Andrew, (2007). Coeliadinae Evans 1937. Version 21 February 2007 (temporary). http://tolweb.org/Coeliadinae/12150/2007.02.21 in The Tree of Life Web Project, http://tolweb.org/
- Savela, Marrku Website on Lepidoptera (accessed 22 September 2007)
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