Iambrix salsala

Taxobox | name = Chestnut Bob
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image_caption = Chestnut Bob
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Arthropoda
classis = Insecta
ordo = Lepidoptera
familia = Hesperiidae
subfamilia = Hesperiinae
genus = "Iambrix"
species = "I.salsala"
binomial = "Iambrix salsala"
binomial_authority = (Moore, 1865)Card for [http://internt.nhm.ac.uk/jdsml/research-curation/projects/lepindex/detail.dsml?TaxonNo=184469.0&UserID=&UserName=&&listPageURL=list%2edsml%3fsort%3dSCIENTIFIC%255fNAME%255fon%255fcard%26SCIENTIFIC%5fNAME%5fon%5fcardqtype%3dstarts%2bwith%26SCIENTIFIC%5fNAME%5fon%5fcard%3dsalsala%26recLimit%3d30&searchPageURL=index%2edsml%3fSCIENTIFIC%5fNAME%5fon%5fcardqtype%3dstarts%2bwith%26sort%3dSCIENTIFIC%255fNAME%255fon%255fcard%26SCIENTIFIC%5fNAME%5fon%5fcard%3dsalsala%26recLimit%3d30 "Iambrix salsala"] in LepIndex. Accessed 12 October 2007.]
synonyms = "Astictopterus salsala"
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"Iambrix salsala",TOL web page on [http://tolweb.org/Iambrix/95193/2007.03.04 genus "Iambrix"] ] commonly known as the Chestnut Bob, is a butterfly belonging to the family Hesperiidae, that is found in India.

Range

The butterfly occurs in Sri Lanka, India, Nepal, Myanmar, Thailand, Laos, North Vietnam, Hainan, Hong Kong, South Yunnan, Langkawi, Malaysia, Singapore, Tioman, Sumatra and Java.Marrku Savela's Website on Lepidoptera. Page on genus [http://www.funet.fi/pub/sci/bio/life/insecta/lepidoptera/ditrysia/hesperioidea/hesperiidae/hesperiinae/iambrix/index.html "Iambrix"] .]

In India, the butterfly flies in South India, Calcutta, along the Himalayas from Kumaon to Sikkim, Assam and eastwards to Myanmar.

Watson (1891) states the butterflies range as followsWatson, E. Y. (1891) Hesperiidae indicae. Vest and Co. Madras.] :

quote|Has been recorded from Bengal (Moore), Cachar (Wood-Mason and de Niceville); Tavoy (Elwes and de Niceville) ; Calcutta (de Niceville} ; Orissa (Taylor) ; Sikkim (de Niceville ; Elwes).

Recorded as "A. stellifer" from Ceylon (Hutchison, Wade, Mackwood); Poona, Bombay (Swinhoe) ; and the Nilgiris (Hampson).

Description

:"For a key to the terms used see the glossary of Lepidopteran terms."

Watson (1891) gives a detailed description, shown below:

"Male and female dark brown with olive-brown gloss. Male ; upperside, forewing Avith two or three ill-defined yellowish spots ascending obliquely from beyond middle of posterior margin. Female ; forewing with an oblique series of small semi-transparent white spots curving across the disc (more or less distinct), and terminated below by an ill-defined yellowish spot. Underside chestnut-brown suffused with black on the disc; forewing with minute white spots, one at extremity of the cell, and two or three obliquely beyond ; hindwing with a series of three spots disposed in a curve across disc ; cilia greyish-brown. Palpi, body, and legs yellowish beneath."

quote|Mr. de Niceville states that he considers "A. salsala" to be identical with "A. stellifer", though Mr. Moore informs him that the female of "A. salsala" has a curved discal row of seven white spots and two lower ochraceous discal spots, and is a larger species than "A. stellifer", Butler. According toMr. Elwes the two species are identical, Sikkim specimens varying considerably in the spots of the forewing above, which are sometimes white, sometimes rufous and sometimes absent as in "stellifer".I have numerous specimens of this species from Rangoon, Beeling, Upper Tenasserim, Madras, Kadur District, and Mysore ; they vary considerably in the distinctness of the spots both on upperside and underside, but I can find no sure characteristic by which to separate them into two species.|E. Y. Watson

Photos

Host-plants

The larva has been recorded on "Bambusa" spp., "Mimosa" spp.

Cited references

ee also

*Hesperiinae
*Hesperiidae
*List of butterflies of India (Hesperiinae)
*List of butterflies of India (Hesperiidae)

References

Print
*aut|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.
*aut|Watson, E. Y. (1891) "Hesperiidae indicae: being a reprint of descriptions of the Hesperiidae of India, Burma, and Ceylon.". Vest and Co. Madras.

Online
*aut|Beccaloni, G. W., aut|Scoble, M. J., aut|Robinson, G. S. & aut|Pitkin, B. (Editors). 2003. The Global Lepidoptera Names Index (LepIndex). World Wide Web electronic publication. [http://www.nhm.ac.uk/entomology/lepindex] (accessed 22 September 2007).
*aut|Brower, Andrew V. Z., (2007). Iambrix Watson 1893. Version 04 March 2007 (under construction). Page on [http://tolweb.org/Iambrix/95193/2007.03.04 genus Iambrix] in The Tree of Life Web Project, http://tolweb.org/.
*aut|Savela, Marrku Website on Lepidoptera [http://www.nic.funet.fi/pub/sci/bio/life/index.html] (accessed 12 October 2007)