Hasora vitta
| Plain Banded Awl | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Hesperiidae |
| Genus: | Hasora |
| Species: | H. vitta |
| Binomial name | |
| Hasora vitta (Butler, 1870)[1] | |
Hasora vitta, commonly known as the Plain Banded Awl,[2][3] is a butterfly belonging to the family Hesperiidae which is found in India and parts of Southeast Asia.
Description
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The butterfly, which has a wingspan of 45 to 55mm, is dark brown above. It resembles the Common Banded Awl Hasora chromus, except in the case of having a broad white band on the under hindwing which is outwardly diffused; also, its wings are more prominently glossed.[4][5]
Other differentiating characteristics are:
Male: The upperforewing hasan apical spot, sometimes with another in 3. The upperforewing has no brand.[4]
Female: The apical spot in the case of the female is larger, and there is an additional spot in 2.[4]
Taxonomy
The butterfly has two subspecies:
- Hasora vitta vitta - South Myanmar (Dawnas), Malaya peninsula, Indonesian archipelago and Philippines.[3][6]
- Hasora vitta indica - South India, Sikkim, Assam, North Myanmar, Thailand and South Western China.[3][6]
Range
The Plain Banded Awl is found in India in the South (Kanara), Sikkim, Assam and eastwards to Myanmar, Thailand, western China, Malaysia, Indonesia and the Philippines.[3][6]
Status
Not Rare as per Evans (1932).[6] Not Common as per Wynter-Blyth (1957).[4]
Host-plants
The caterpillars have been recorded on Derris spp., Pongamia spp, Millettia glabra and Spatholobus ferrugineus.[3]
Cited references
- ↑ Card for Hasora vitta in LepIndex. Accessed 12 October 2007.
- ↑ TOL web page on genus Hasora
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 Marrku Savela's Website on Lepidoptera. Page on genus Hasora.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 Wynter-Blyth, M.A. (1957) Butterflies of the Indian Region, pg 468.
- ↑ Kunte, Krushnamegh. (2000) Butterflies of Peninsular India, pg 192.
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 6.3 Evans,W.H.(1932) The Identification of Indian Butterflies, ser no I 1.13, pg 315.
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.
- Kunte, Krushnamegh. (2000) Butterflies of Peninsular India, (i to xviii, pp254, Plates 1 to 32) Universities Press (India) Ltd, Hyderabad (reprint 2006). ISBN 81-7371-354-5.
- Wynter-Blyth, M.A. (1957) Butterflies of the Indian Region, 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)
