Pseudoborbo bevani
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| Pseudoborbo bevani (Moore, 1878) |
Pseudoborbo bevani, commonly known as the Beavan's Swift, is a butterfly belonging to the family Hesperiidae. It is named after Captain Beavan.
[edit] Description
Male. Upperside dark olive-brown ; cilia pale brownish-cinereous; forewing with a single small, pale white, semi-diaphanous spot at upper end of the cell, three contiguous subapical spots, another below these; and two larger spots below obliquely on the disc, a small spot also very indistinctly visible on middle of submedian vein ; hindwing without spots. Underside greyish olive-brown ; spots slightly more prominent than above ; hindwing with a discal series of five small somewhat indistinct white spots.
Salween, Moulmein (Lt. Bevan). A male specimen of this species from Calcutta collected by the late Mr. Atkinson is in the collection of Dr. O. Staudinger. Also recorded from Karachi, Mhow, Poona and Bombay (Swinhoe); Calcutta (de Niceville} ; Orissa (Taylor) ; Nilgiris (Hampson}. Mr. Elwes also states that he has specimens from Mandi, N.-W. Himalayas, Khasias, and Sikkim.—E. Y. Watson[1]
[edit] References
- ^ Watson, E. Y. 1891. Hesperiidae Indicae: descriptions of the Hesperiidae of India, Burmah and Ceylon. Madras.
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