Capila jayadeva
| Striped Dawnfly | |
|---|---|
 | |
| Male (above), female (middle), male underside (lower) | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Hesperiidae |
| Genus: | Capila |
| Species: | C. jayadeva |
| Binomial name | |
| Capila jayadeva (Moore, 1865)[1] | |
Capilla jayadeva, commonly called as the Striped Dawnfly,[2] is a species of hesperid butterfly found in tropical Asia.
Range
The butterfly is found in India from Sikkim, Northeast Bengal to Assam and is also found in Laos.[3]
Watson (1891) states:[4]
Found in Darjeeling. (Moore, P. Z. S., I. c.)
Also recorded from Sikkim by Mr. Elwes who notes that the female is without the orange on the thorax and base of wings, and has much broader, rounder wings than the male. One female recorded from Margherita, Assam, by Mr. Doherty.
— E. Y. Watson
The type locality is Darjeeling.[1]
Status
Rare.[3]
Description
- See glossary for terms used.
Watson (1891) gives a detailed description, shown below:[4]
"Male and female brown. Upperside base of wings clothed with orange-yellow hairs ; both wings with a narrow longitudinal semitransparent streak between the veins, the discoidal cell having two streaks, and a third but short streak arising from the extremity. Thorax, head, and palpi, orange-yellow. Abdomen brown, with narrow white segmental bands ; third joint of palpi and a few surrounding hairs and a spot on forehead brown. Underside paler brown, the semitransparent streaks being less prominent. Body and legs brown. Female similar, but with the thorax and base of wings brown.
He also states:[4]
With reference to this species Mr. A. V. Knyvett writes as follows :
- "I flushed Capila jayadeva female off the underside of a leaf in a damp shady spot full of undergrowth. She flitted about like a Plesioneura for some time, and then settled on the underside of a broad leaf, with wings outspread. It was an impossible sort of a place to use a net on and I missed, with the result that she flew a short way and again settled in the same way and gave me as easy a chance of taking her as I could have wished for. The flight seemed a compromise between that of a Mycalesis or Yphthima and a Plesioneura, rather inclining towards the latter."
— E. Y. Watson
Cited references
- 1 2 Card for Capila jayadeva in LepIndex. Accessed 04 November2007.
- ↑ Marrku Savela's Website on Lepidoptera Page on genus Capila.
- 1 2 Evans,W.H.(1932) The Identification of Indian Butterflies, ser no I 7.4, pp 322 - 323.
- 1 2 3 Watson, E. Y. (1891) Hesperiidae Indicae: Descriptions of the Hesperiidae of India, Burma and Ceylon.
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: being a reprint of descriptions of the Hesperiidae of India, Burma, and Ceylon.. Vest and Co. Madras.
- Wynter-Blyth, M.A. (1957) Butterflies of the Indian Region, Bombay Natural History Society, Mumbai, India.
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. (2007). Capila Moore 1866. Version 4 March 2007 (under construction). http://tolweb.org/Capila/95329/2007.03.04 in The Tree of Life Web Project, http://tolweb.org/
- Savela, Marrku Website on Lepidoptera (accessed 22 September 2007)