Caltoris kumara
| Blank Swift | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Hesperiidae |
| Genus: | Caltoris |
| Species: | C. kumara |
| Binomial name | |
| Caltoris kumara (Moore, 1878) | |
| Synonyms | |
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Parnara kumara Moore, 1878 | |
Caltoris kumara, commonly known as the Blank Swift, is a butterfly belonging to the family Hesperiidae.
Description
Female. Upperside dark olive brown ; forewing with a transverse discal series of seven yellowish semi-diaphanous spots from before the apex ; cilia pale brownish-yellow. Underside deep ochreous-brown ; forewing marked as above, the lowest spot being yellow : hindwing with a single discal indistinct yellow spot between the two lower median branches, Palpi and body brown ; tarsi ochreous. This species is also found in Ceylon, the male differing from the female above and beneath in the first upper and lower discal spots being absent.—E. Y. Watson[1]
Found in the south Indian hills and Sri Lanka.
References
- ↑ Watson, E. Y. 1891. Hesperiidae Indicae: being a reprint of descriptions of the Hesperiidae of India, Burma, and Ceylon. Vest and co. Madras