Capila pieridoides
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Capila pieridoides, commonly known as White 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 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]
[edit] Status
Rare.[4]
[edit] Cited references
- ^ a b Calliana pieridoides as per LepIndex. Card for Calliana pieridoides. Accessed 04 November2007.
- ^ TOL web page on genus Capila
- ^ a b Marrku Savela's Website on Lepidoptera page on genus Capila.
- ^ a b Evans,W.H.(1932) The Identification of Indian Butterflies, ser no I 9.1, pp 323.
[edit] See also
- Pyrginae
- Hesperiidae
- List of butterflies of India (Pyrginae)
- List of butterflies of India (Hesperiidae)
[edit] 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. [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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