• Source: Bibasis oedipodea

Bibasis oedipodea, the branded orange awlet, is a species of hesperid butterfly found in South Asia and Southeast Asia. The butterfly was reassigned to the genus Burara by Vane-Wright and de Jong (2003) and is considered by them to be Burara oedipodea.




Range


The branded orange awlet is found in India, Sri Lanka, Myanmar, Malaysia, Java, Thailand and Vietnam. In India, the butterfly is found along the Himalayas from Mussoorie to Assam. The type locality is Java in Indonesia.




Description



The butterfly has a wingspan of 40 to 50 mm for subspecies ataphus found in Sri Lanka, and of 65 to 70 mm in subspecies excellens found in Sulawesi.
Edward Yerbury Watson (1891) gives a detailed description:

Male. Upperside ochreous olive brown; forewing with an ochreous-red costal band which also extends across base of the cell; a large black basal patch below the cell. Cilia of forewing pale brownish grey, of hindwing ochreous-red.

Female. It differs above only in the absence of the basal black patch, and beneath it in the less prominent white posterior marginal band. Underside ochreous-brown: forewing with a paler ochreous subapical and a marginal fascia, and a broad whitish posterior band: hindwing with bright ochreous red longitudinal streak between the veins, broadest between the median and submedian veins and abdominal margin; a small black spot at the base above the costal vein. Thorax in front, head, palpi, body beneath, and legs ochreous-red; terminal joint of palpi brown.




Biology


This butterfly is crepuscular. The larva have been recorded on Hiptage benghalensis and Combretum latifolium.




Cited references



Brower, Andrew V. Z. and Warren, Andrew, (2007). Coeliadinae Evans 1937. Version 21 February 2007 (temporary). http://tolweb.org/Coeliadinae/12150/2007.02.21 in The Tree of Life Web Project, http://tolweb.org/

Kata Kunci Pencarian:

• Bibasis oedipodea
• List of butterflies of India (Coeliadinae)
• Burara
• List of butterflies of Bangladesh
• List of butterflies of Thailand
• List of butterflies of Sri Lanka (Hesperiidae)
• List of butterflies of Hong Kong
• List of butterflies of the Philippines
• List of butterflies of Indochina
• List of butterflies of Bhutan