Capila lidderdali

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Lidderdale's Dawnfly
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Hesperiidae
Subfamily: Pyrginae
Genus: Capila
Species: C. lidderdali
Binomial name
Capila lidderdali
(Elwes, 1888)[1]

Capila lidderdali, commonly known as Lidderdale's Dawnfly,[2][3] is a species of hesperid butterfly found in India and Southeast Asia.

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[edit] Range

The butterfly occurs in Nepal, Sikkim,[4] Bhutan,[5] Northeast India (Assam) and also in Laos.[3]

The type locality is Darjeeling.[1]

[edit] Status

Very Rare in Bhutan.[5]

[edit] Cited references

  1. ^ a b Card for Capila lidderdali in LepIndex. Accessed 04 November2007.
  2. ^ TOL web page on genus Capila
  3. ^ a b Marrku Savela's Website on Lepidoptera page on genusCapila.
  4. ^ Listed in Haribal, Meena (1992) Butterflies of Sikkim, ser 546, pg 196.
  5. ^ a b Evans,W.H.(1932) The Identification of Indian Butterflies, ser no I 6.1, pp 322.

[edit] See also

[edit] References

Print

  • 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. [1] (accessed 22 September 2007).
  • Brower, Andrew V. Z. (2007). Capila Moore 1866. Version 04 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 [2] (accessed 22 September 2007)


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