Quedara basiflava

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Yellow-Base/Golden Tree Flitter
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Hesperiidae
Subfamily: Hesperiinae
Genus: Quedara
Species: Q. basiflava
Binomial name
Quedara basiflava
(De Nicéville, 1888)

Quedara basiflava, commonly known as the Yellow-Base/Golden Tree Flitter, is a butterfly belonging to the family Hesperiidae.

[edit] Food plants

The larvae feed on Calamus pseudotenuis, Calamus rotang and Calamus thwaitesii.[1]

[edit] References

  1. ^ Kunte, K. 2006. Additions to the known larval host plants of Indian butterflies. J. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc. 103(1):119-121