Hasora salanga

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Green Awl
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Hesperiidae
Subfamily: Coeliadinae
Genus: Hasora
Species: H. salanga
Binomial name
Hasora salanga
(Plötz, 1885)[1]


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

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[edit] Distribution

The Green Awl is found in India in the Nicobar Islands and eastwards to Myanmar (Dawnas to South Myanmar), Thailand, Malay peninsula (Malacca), Sumatra and Borneo.[3][4]

[edit] Cited references

  1. ^ Card for Hasora salanga in LepIndex. Accessed 02 October 2007.
  2. ^ TOL web page on genus Hasora
  3. ^ a b Marrku Savela's Website on Lepidoptera. Page on genus Hasora.
  4. ^ Evans,W.H.(1932) The Identification of Indian Butterflies, ser no I 1.10, pg 315.

[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.

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)


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