Hasora salanga
| Green Awl | |
|---|---|
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Hesperiidae |
| Genus: | Hasora |
| Species: | H. salanga |
| Binomial name | |
| Hasora salanga (Plötz, 1885)[1] | |
Hasora salanga, commonly known as the Green Awl,[2][3] is a butterfly belonging to the family Hesperiidae which is found in India, parts of Southeast Asia and Australia.
Distribution
The Green Awl is found in India in the Nicobar Islands and eastwards to Myanmar (Dawnas to South Myanmar), Thailand, Malay peninsula (Malacca), Sumatra and Borneo.[3][4]
Cited references
- ↑ Card for Hasora salanga in LepIndex. Accessed 2 October 2007.
- ↑ TOL web page on genus Hasora
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Marrku Savela's Website on Lepidoptera. Page on genus Hasora.
- ↑ Evans,W.H.(1932) The Identification of Indian Butterflies, ser no I 1.10, pg 315.
See also
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.
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). Hasora Moore 1881. Version 21 February 2007 (under construction). Page on genus Hasora in The Tree of Life Web Project http://tolweb.org/.
- Savela, Marrku Website on Lepidoptera (accessed 12 October 2007)