• Source: Capila zennara

    • Capila zennara, commonly known as the pale striped dawnfly, is a species of hesperid butterfly found in tropical Asia.


    Range


    The butterfly occurs in Sikkim, Bhutan, Northeast India, and has also been recorded in northern Thailand.
    The type locality is Bengal.


    Description



    In 1891, Edward Yerbury Watson gave a detailed description:

    Male and female. Upperside brown; forewing with a broad yellowish white semitransparent irregular margined discal band obliquely from the middle of costa to posterior angle; hindwing in the male exteriorly with two greyish longitudinal streaks between each vein, these being absent in the female. Abdomen with a pale greyish anal tuft. Underside uniform brown, with oblique discal band as above. Front of head and palpi dull orange yellow. Body and legs brown. Cilia brown.
    Watson also adds:

    Mr. Elwes records this species as occurring rarely in Sikkim from April to August in the low valleys. Also, he states that the antennae of the female both in this species and in Capila jayadeva are much less hooked at the tip than those in the male.


    Cited references




    See also


    Pyrginae
    Hesperiidae
    List of butterflies of India (Pyrginae)
    List of butterflies of India (Hesperiidae)


    References


    Print

    Evans, W.H. (1932). The Identification of Indian Butterflies (2nd ed.). Mumbai, India: Bombay Natural History Society.
    Watson, E. Y. (1891) Hesperiidae indicae: being a reprint of descriptions of the Hesperiidae of India, Burma, and Ceylon.. Vest and Co. Madras.
    Wynter-Blyth, Mark Alexander (1957). Butterflies of the Indian Region. Bombay, India: Bombay Natural History Society. ISBN 978-8170192329.
    Online

    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 15 October 2016.
    Brower, Andrew V. Z. (2007). Capila Moore 1866. Version 4 March 2007 (under construction). http://tolweb.org/Capila/95329/2007.03.04 in The Tree of Life Web Project, http://tolweb.org/
    "Markku Savela's website on Lepidoptera".

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