Quedara basiflava

Quedara basiflava
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Hesperiidae
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.

Food plants

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

References

  1. ^ K. Kunte (2006). "Additions to the known larval host plants of Indian butterflies". Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 103 (1): 119–121.