Capila pieridoides
| White Dawnfly | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Hesperiidae |
| Genus: | Capila |
| Species: | C. pieridoides |
| Binomial name | |
| Capila pieridoides (Moore, 1878)([1]) | |
Capila pieridoides, commonly known as White Dawnfly,[2][3] is a species of hesperid butterfly found in India and Southeast Asia.
Range
Male (left) and female (right)
The butterfly occurs in India in the Northeast Bengal and Assam and eastwards onto Myanmar (Dawnas). It is also found in Thailand and West China.[3][4]
The type locality is Northeast Bengal.[1]
Status
Rare.[4]
Cited references
- 1 2 Calliana pieridoides as per LepIndex. Card for Calliana pieridoides. 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 9.1, pp 323.
See also
- Pyrginae
- Hesperiidae
- List of butterflies of India (Pyrginae)
- 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: 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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