Caltoris canaraica
| Kanara Swift | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Hesperiidae |
| Genus: | Caltoris |
| Species: | C. canaraica |
| Binomial name | |
| Caltoris canaraica (Moore, 1883) | |
| Synonyms | |
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Parnara canaraica | |
Caltoris canaraica, commonly known as the Kanara Swift, is a butterfly belonging to the family Hesperiidae.
Description
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.— E. Y. Watson[1]
Habitat : Canara (Ward)
References
- ↑ Watson, E. Y. 1891. Hesperiidae Indicae: descriptions of the Hesperiidae of India, Burmah and Ceylon. Madras.
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