Caltoris kumara

Blank Swift
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Hesperiidae
Genus: Caltoris
Species: C. kumara
Binomial name
Caltoris kumara
(Moore, 1878)
Synonyms

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

  1. Watson, E. Y. 1891. Hesperiidae Indicae: being a reprint of descriptions of the Hesperiidae of India, Burma, and Ceylon. Vest and co. Madras