Capila penicillatum
| Fringed Dawnfly | |
|---|---|
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| Male (above), female (middle), male underside (lower) | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Hesperiidae |
| Genus: | Capila |
| Species: | C. penicillatum |
| Binomial name | |
| Capila penicillatum (de Nicéville, 1893)[1] | |
Capila penicillatum, commonly known as Fringed Dawnfly,[2][3] is a species of hesperid butterfly found in India and Southeast Asia.
Range
The butterfly occurs in India from Meghalaya (Khasi hills) eastwards to Canton, North Vietnam and Hainan.[3][4]
The type locality is Khasi hills.[1]
Status
Very Rare.[4]
Cited references
- 1 2 Card for Capila pennicillatum in LepIndex. Accessed 04 November2007.
- ↑ TOL web page on genus Capila
- 1 2 Marrku Savela's Website on Lepidoptera Page on genus Capila.
- 1 2 Evans,W.H.(1932) The Identification of Indian Butterflies, ser no I 8.3, pp 323.
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.
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)
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