• Source: Bibasis vasutana

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




Range


The green awlet is found in Nepal, the Indian Himalayas, Myanmar, Thailand and Laos.
In India, the butterfly ranges from Kumaon, across Nepal along the Himalayas to Sikkim and Assam and eastwards towards Myanmar.
The type locality is Darjeeling in northern West Bengal.




Status


William Harry Evans described it is being not rare in the Himalayas.




Description



The butterfly has a wingspan of 55 to 65 mm.
Edward Yerbury Watson (1891) gives a detailed description:

Male. Upperside deep purple brown, paler on the base of the wings; forewing with orange yellow costal basal streak. Cilia of hindwing broad and bright orange yellow. Underside glossy greyish green, the veins and narrow intermediate parallel lines blackish; a patch on posterior half of forewing brown bordered above with blue. Third joint of palpi brown, the rest orange yellow. Head, thorax in front and beneath, legs, middle of abdomen beneath, and anal tuft bright orange yellow.

Female. Upperside darker brown, the base of the wings greyish blue; forewing with two small semitransparent spots obliquely beneath the extremity.




Habits


This butterfly is crepuscular.




Cited references






See also



Coeliadinae
Hesperiidae
List of butterflies of India (Coeliadinae)
List of butterflies of India (Hesperiidae)




References






= Print

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Evans, W.H. (1932). The Identification of Indian Butterflies (2nd ed.). Mumbai, India: Bombay Natural History Society.
Watson, E. Y. (1891) Hesperiidae indicae. Vest and Co. Madras.




= Online

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Beccaloni, George; Scoble, Malcolm; Kitching, Ian; Simonsen, Thomas; Robinson, Gaden; Pitkin, Brian; Hine, Adrian; Lyal, Chris. "The Global Lepidoptera Names Index (LepIndex)". Natural History Museum, London. Retrieved 2016-10-15.
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/
"Markku Savela's website on Lepidoptera".

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• Bibasis vasutana
• List of butterflies of India (Coeliadinae)
• List of butterflies of Thailand
• Burara
• List of butterflies of Indochina
• List of butterflies of Bhutan
• List of butterflies of Nepal