Capila zennara

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Pale Striped Dawnfly
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Hesperiidae
Subfamily: Pyrginae
Genus: Capila
Species: C. zennara
Binomial name
Capila zennara
(Moore, 1865)[1]

Capila zennara, commonly known as the Pale Striped Dawnfly,[2][3] is a species of hesperid butterfly found in tropical Asia.

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[edit] Range

The butterfly occurs in Sikkim,[4] Bhutan, Northeast India, and has also been recorded in Northern Thailand.[3][5]

The type locality is Bengal.[3]

[edit] Status

[edit] Description

For a key to the terms used see the glossary of Lepidopteran terms.

Watson (1891) gives a detailed description, shown below:[5]

"Male and female. Upperside brown ; forewing with a broad yellowish white semitransparent irregular margined discal band obliquely from middle of costa to posterior angle ; hindwing in the male exteriorly with two greyish longitudinal streaks between each vein, these being absent in the female. Abdomen with pale greyish anal tuft. Underside uniform brown, with oblique discal band as above. Front of head and palpi dull orange yellow. Body and legs brown. Cilia brown.

Watson also adds:

Mr. Elwes records this species as occurring rarely in Sikkim from April to August in the low valleys, and also states that the antennae of the female both in this species and in Capila jayadeva are much less hooked at the tip than those in the male.

— E. Y. Watson

[edit] Cited references

  1. ^ Card for Capila zennara in LepIndex. Accessed 04 November 2007.
  2. ^ TOL web page on genus Capila
  3. ^ a b c Marrku Savela's Website on Lepidoptera on Capila genus.
  4. ^ Listed in Haribal, Meena (1992) Butterflies of Sikkim, ser 547, pg 196.
  5. ^ a b Watson, E. Y. (1891) Hesperiidae indicae. Vest and Co. Madras.

[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.
  • 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. [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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