Capila lidderdali
| Lidderdale's Dawnfly | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Hesperiidae |
| Genus: | Capila |
| Species: | C. lidderdali |
| Binomial name | |
| Capila lidderdali (Elwes, 1888)[1] | |
Capila lidderdali, commonly known as Lidderdale's Dawnfly,[2][3] is a species of hesperid butterfly found in India and Southeast Asia.
Range
Male
The butterfly occurs in Nepal, Sikkim,[4] Bhutan,[5] Northeast India (Assam) and also in Laos.[3]
The type locality is Darjeeling.[1]
Status
Cited references
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Card for Capila lidderdali in LepIndex. Accessed 04 November2007.
- ↑ TOL web page on genus Capila
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Marrku Savela's Website on Lepidoptera page on genus Capila.
- ↑ Listed in Haribal, Meena (1992) Butterflies of Sikkim, ser 546, pg 196.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 Evans,W.H.(1932) The Identification of Indian Butterflies, ser no I 6.1, pp 322.
See also
- Pyrginae
- Hesperiidae
- List of butterflies of India (Pyrginae)
- List of butterflies of India (Hesperiidae)
References
- Evans, W.H. (1932) The Identification of Indian Butterflies. 2nd Ed, (i to x, pp454, Plates I to XXXII), Bombay Natural History Society, Mumbai, India.
- Watson, E. Y. (1891) Hesperiidae indicae: being a reprint of descriptions of the Hesperiidae of India, Burma, and Ceylon.. Vest and Co. Madras.
Online
- Beccaloni, G. W., Scoble, M. J., Robinson, G. S. & Pitkin, B. (Editors). 2003. The Global Lepidoptera Names Index (LepIndex). World Wide Web electronic publication. (accessed 22 September 2007).
- Brower, Andrew V. Z. (2007). Capila Moore 1866. Version 4 March 2007 (under construction). http://tolweb.org/Capila/95329/2007.03.04 in The Tree of Life Web Project, http://tolweb.org/
- Savela, Marrku Website on Lepidoptera (accessed 22 September 2007)