Caltoris kumara

Caltoris kumara, the blank swift,[1] is a butterfly belonging to the family Hesperiidae.[2][3]

Blank swift
C.k. kumara
Chinnar Wildlife Sanctuary, Kerala, India
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Arthropoda
Class:
Insecta
Order:
Lepidoptera
Family:
Hesperiidae
Genus:
Caltoris
Species:
C. kumara
Binomial name
Caltoris kumara
(Moore, 1878)
Synonyms

Parnara kumara Moore, 1878

Description

Female. Upperside dark olive brown; forewing with a transverse discal series of seven yellowish semi-diaphanous spots from before the apex; cilia pale brownish-yellow. Underside deep ochreous-brown; forewing marked as above, the lowest spot being yellow : hindwing with a single discal indistinct yellow spot between the two lower median branches, Palpi and body brown; tarsi ochreous. This species is also found in Ceylon, the male differing from the female above and beneath in the first upper and lower discal spots being absent.

— Edward Yerbury Watson[4]

It is found in the India and Sri Lanka.[1] In India, a range extension of this species to the western Himalaya was recorded in 2018. [5]

  • Egg
  • Larva
  • Pupa
  • Imago

References
  1. R.K., Varshney; Smetacek, Peter (2015). A Synoptic Catalogue of the Butterflies of India. New Delhi: Butterfly Research Centre, Bhimtal & Indinov Publishing, New Delhi. pp. 59–60. doi:10.13140/RG.2.1.3966.2164. ISBN 978-81-929826-4-9.
  2. W. H., Evans (1949). A Catalogue of the Hesperiidae from Europe, Asia, and Australia in the British Museum. London: British Museum (Natural History). Department of Entomology. p. 454.
  3. One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a work now in the public domain: Swinhoe, Charles (1912–1913). Lepidoptera Indica. Vol. X. London: Lovell Reeve and Co. pp. 300–301.
  4. One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a work now in the public domain: E. Y., Watson (1891). Hesperiidae Indicae : being a reprint of descriptions of the Hesperiidae of India, Burma, and Ceylon. Madras: Vest and Company. p. 41.
  5. Shankar, Kumar; Paramjit, Singh; Raj Shekhar, Singh (2018). "Range Extension of Ciliate Blue Anthene emolus Godart (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae) and Blank Swift Caltoris kumara Moore (Lepidoptera: Hesperiidae) into the Lower Western Himalaya". 115. Bombay Natural History Society, Mumbai: 6–7. doi:10.17087/jbnhs/2018/v115/114782. Cite journal requires |journal= (help)


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