Hasora leucospila

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Large Banded Awl
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Arthropoda Class: Insecta Order: Lepidoptera Family: Hesperiidae Subfamily: Coeliadinae Genus: Hasora Species: H. khoda
Binomial name
Hasora khoda (Mabille , 1876)[1]

Hasora khoda, commonly known as the Large Banded Awl,^[2][3] is a butterfly belonging to the family Hesperiidae which is found in India, parts of Southeast Asia and Australia.

Contents 1 Range 2 Status 3 Host-plants 4 See also 5 References

[edit] Range

The Large Banded Awl is found in India in Assam (Cachar) and the Andaman islands eastwards to Myanmar, Thailand, Philippines, Sulawesi, New Caledonia and Australia.^[3][4]

The type locality is New Caledonia.^[3]

[edit] Status

Very Rare.^[4]

[edit] Host-plants

The larva has been recorded on Millettia megasperma and Wisteria sinensis.^[3]

[edit] See also

• Coeliadinae
• Hesperiidae
• List of butterflies of India (Coeliadinae)
• List of butterflies of India (Hesperiidae)

[edit] References

1. ^ Card for Hasora khoda in LepIndex. Accessed 12 October 2007.
2. ^ TOL web page on genus Hasora
3. ^ ^{a b c d} Marrku Savela's Website on Lepidoptera. Page on genus Hasora.
4. ^ ^{a b} Evans,W.H.(1932) The Identification of Indian Butterflies, ser no I 1.14, pg 315.

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.

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). Hasora Moore 1881. Version 21 February 2007 (under construction). Page on genus Hasora in The Tree of Life Web Project http://tolweb.org/.
• Savela, Marrku Website on Lepidoptera [2] (accessed 12 October 2007)