- Pelopidas subochracea
Taxobox | name = Large Branded Swift
status =
image_width = 240px
image_caption =
regnum =Animal ia
phylum =Arthropod a
classis =Insect a
ordo =Lepidoptera
familia =Hesperiidae
subfamilia =Hesperiinae
genus = "Pelopidas"
species = "P. subochracea"
binomial = "Pelopidas subochracea"
binomial_authority = (Moore,1878 )
synonyms =
range_
range_map_width = 250px
range_map_caption ="Pelopidas subochracea", commonly known as the Large Branded Swift, is a
butterfly belonging to the familyHesperiidae .Description
"Upperside glossy luteous olive-brown; cilia yellowish-cinereous. Male. Forewing with two pale semi-diaphanous spots at end of the cell, three contiguous spots obliquely before the apex, three upper discal spots, below which is a narrow white oblique streak or brand ; hindwing with three small yellow upper discal spots, the two lowest small. Female. Forewing with a lower or fourth discal spot, and a small dot below the third spot ; the spots angled outward : hindwing as in male. Underside greenish-ochreous, brown on hind border of forewing and anal lobe ; marginal line brown and prominent : forewing with the lower spot diffused and white : hindwing with the upper discal white spot large and quadrate, four spots below in a slightly linear position, the upper spot indistinct ; a white spot also at upper end of cell, and a smaller indistinct spot above it."Watson, E. Y. (1891) Hesperiidae Indicae: Descriptions of the Hesperiidae of India, Burma and Ceylon. Vest and Co. Madras. [Under "Chapra subochracea"] ]
References
Wikimedia Foundation. 2010.
