Caltoris canaraica

Kanara Swift
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Hesperiidae
Genus:	Caltoris
Species:	C. canaraica
Binomial name
Caltoris canaraica (Moore, 1883)
Synonyms
Parnara canaraica

Caltoris canaraica, commonly known as the Kanara Swift, is a butterfly belonging to the family Hesperiidae.

Description

Male and Female. Upperside dark brown, basal area olive-brown. Male : Forewing with two small oval semi-diaphanous white spots at the end of the cell, three spots obliquely before the apex, and three on the disk; hindwing without makings ; cilia brownish-cinereous. Under side paler brown, irrorated with ochreous scales which are thickly disposed along the costa and apex of forewing and across discal area of hindwing : forewing marked as above, also with a small whitish spot above hind margin : hindwing with two discal white spots. Female : forewing with larger spots than in the male, also with a minute dot beneath the lower discal spot and a triangular yellow spot above hind margin ; hindwing with three discal semi-diaphanous spots. Underside : forewing as above : hindwing with four discal white spots, and a fifth at end of the cell.

—E. Y. Watson^[1]

Habitat : Canara (Ward)

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