Celaenorrhinus pyrrha
Double Spotted Flat | |
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Male, female and male underside | |
Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Lepidoptera |
Family: | Hesperiidae |
Genus: | Celaenorrhinus |
Species: | C. pyrrha |
Binomial name | |
Celaenorrhinus pyrrha de Nicéville, 1889 | |
Celaenorrhinus pyrrha,[1] commonly called Double Spotted Flat,[2] is a hesperiid butterfly which is found in South Asia.
Range
The butterfly occurs in India, Bhutan, Myanmar, Laos, and the Malay peninsula.[2] In India, the butterfly ranges from Kumaon (Uttarakhand) to Sikkim, Bhutan and eastwards towards Myanmar.[2][3]
Status
Not Rare.[3]
Cited references
- ↑ Card for Celaenorrhinus pyrrha in LepIndex. Accessed 26 September 2007.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Marrku Savela's Website on Lepidoptera Page on Celaenorrhinus genus., Subfamily Pyrginae, Family Hesperiidae
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Evans,W.H.(1932) The Identification of Indian Butterflies, ser no I11.5, pp 324.
See also
References
- Evans, W.H. (1932) The Identification of Indian Butterflies. 2nd Ed, (i to x, pp 454, Plates I to XXXII), Bombay Natural History Society, Mumbai, India.
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 26 September 2007).
- Savela, Marrku Website on Lepidoptera (accessed 26 September 2007)