Hasora taminatus

Taxobox | name = White Banded Awl
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regnum = Animalia
phylum = Arthropoda
classis = Insecta
ordo = Lepidoptera
familia = Hesperiidae
subfamilia = Coeliadinae
genus = "Hasora"
species = "H. taminatus"
binomial = "Hasora taminatus"
binomial_authority = (Hübner, 1818)Card for [http://internt.nhm.ac.uk/jdsml/research-curation/projects/lepindex/detail.dsml?TaxonNo=184094.0&UserID=&UserName=&&listPageURL=list%2edsml%3fsort%3dSCIENTIFIC%255fNAME%255fon%255fcard%26SCIENTIFIC%5fNAME%5fon%5fcardqtype%3dstarts%2bwith%26SCIENTIFIC%5fNAME%5fon%5fcard%3dtaminatus%26recLimit%3d30&searchPageURL=index%2edsml%3fSCIENTIFIC%5fNAME%5fon%5fcardqtype%3dstarts%2bwith%26sort%3dSCIENTIFIC%255fNAME%255fon%255fcard%26SCIENTIFIC%5fNAME%5fon%5fcard%3dtaminatus%26recLimit%3d30 "Hasora taminatus"] in LepIndex. Accessed 12 October 2007.]
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"Hasora taminatus",TOL web page on [http://www.tolweb.org/Hasora/94263 genus "Hasora"] ] Marrku Savela's Website on Lepidoptera. Page on genus [http://www.funet.fi/pub/sci/bio/life/insecta/lepidoptera/ditrysia/hesperioidea/hesperiidae/coeliadinae/hasora/index.html "Hasora"] .] commonly known as the White Banded Awl, is a butterfly belonging to the family Hesperiidae, which is found in Asia.

Range

The butterfly is found in Sri Lanka, India, Myanmar, Thailand, Laos, Hainan, Hong Kong, Western China, Malaysia, the Indonesian archipelago (Borneo, Sumatra, Java, Nias, Sumbawa and Bali), Philippines and Sulawesi.

In India the butterfly is found in South India, where it occurs in the Western Ghats, Coorg, Nilgiris and Palni hills; and in the Himalayas from Mussoorie eastwards to Sikkim and through to Myanmar. It is also found in the Andaman and Nicobar islands.Evans,W.H.(1932) The Identification of Indian Butterflies, ser no I1.15, pp 316.]

The type locality is South India.

tatus

'Common' in South India; 'Not Rare' elsewhere as per Evans (1932).

Description

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

The butterfly, which has a wingspan of 45 to 55mm, is dark brown and unmarked above; and resembles the Common Banded Awl "Hasora chromus", except that it has a broad white band on the under hindwing which is sharply defined. The female White Banded Awl has small spots on the upper forewing while the male has no brand above.Wynter-Blyth, M.A. (1957) Butterflies of the Indian Region, pg 468.] Kunte, Krushnamegh. (2000) Butterflies of Peninsular India, pg 192.]

Detailed description

Watson (1891) gives detailed descriptions of "Hasora taminatus malayana", shown below:Watson, E. Y. (1891) Hesperiidae Indicae: Descriptions of the Hesperiidae of India, Burma and Ceylon. Vest and Co. Madras. [Under "Parata malayana" Felder] ]

:"The females have a small semi-transparent yellowish discal speck between the two posterior branches of the median vein, and of course lack the oblique band of short lines of modified scales seen in the males of this as well as of the preceding closely-allied species." (Wood-Mason and de Niceville, J. A. S. B., 1881, p. 254.)

:"The above refers to Andaman females only, as in the Nicobar females the small semi-transparent yellow discal speck between the two posterior branches of the median vein is wanting according to Messrs. Wood-Mason and de Niceville."

:"Recorded from the Andamans and Nicobars."

Host-plants

The larva has been recorded on Derris scandens and Pongamia spp.

Cited references

ee also

*Coeliadinae
*Hesperiidae
*List of butterflies of India (Coeliadinae)
*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|Kunte, Krushnamegh. (2000) "Butterflies of Peninsular India", (i to xviii, pp254, Plates 1 to 32) Universities Press (India) Ltd, Hyderabad (reprint 2006). ISBN 81-7371-354-5.
*aut|Watson, E. Y. (1891) "Hesperiidae indicae". Vest and Co. Madras.
*aut|Wynter-Blyth, M.A. (1957) "Butterflies of the Indian Region", Bombay Natural History Society, Mumbai, India.

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). Hasora Moore 1881. Version 21 February 2007 (under construction). Page on [http://tolweb.org/Hasora/94263/2007.02.21 genus Hasora] 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 22 September 2007)