- Pseudoborbo bevani
Taxobox | name = Beavan's Swift
regnum =Animal ia
phylum =Arthropod a
classis =Insect a
ordo =Lepidoptera
familia =Hesperiidae
genus = "Pseudoborbo "
species = "P. bevani"
binomial = "Pseudoborbo bevani"
binomial_authority = (Moore, 1878)"Pseudoborbo bevani", commonly known as the Beavan's Swift, is a
butterfly belonging to the familyHesperiidae . It is named after Captain Beavan.Description
quote|Male. Upperside dark olive-brown ; cilia pale brownish-cinereous; forewing with a single small, pale white, semi-diaphanous spot at upper end of the cell, three contiguous subapical spots, another below these; and two larger spots below obliquely on the disc, a small spot also very indistinctly visible on middle of submedian vein ; hindwing without spots. Underside greyish olive-brown ; spots slightly more prominent than above ; hindwing with a discal series of five small somewhat indistinct white spots. Salween, Moulmein (Lt. Bevan).A male specimen of this species from Calcutta collected by the late Mr. Atkinson is in the collection of Dr. O. Staudinger.Also recorded from Karachi, Mhow, Poona and Bombay (Swinhoe); Calcutta (de Niceville} ; Orissa (Taylor) ; Nilgiris (Hampson}.Mr. Elwes also states that he has specimens from Mandi, N.-W. Himalayas, Khasias, and Sikkim.
E. Y. Watson [Watson, E. Y. 1891. Hesperiidae Indicae: descriptions of the Hesperiidae of India, Burmah and Ceylon. Madras.]References
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