Bibasis anadi

Bibasis anadi
Plain Orange Awlet
Male, female and male underwing
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Hesperiidae
Genus: Bibasis
Species: B. anadi
Binomial name
Bibasis anadi
(de Niceville, 1883)[1]
Synonyms

Choaspes anadi
de Niceville, 1883[1]
Burrara anadi

The Plain Orange Awlet, or Bibasis anadi,[2] is a species of hesperid butterfly found in India and Southeast Asia. The butterfly has been reassigned to genus Burara and is now Burara anadi.[3]

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Range

The Plain Orange Awlet ranges from India, (Mussoorie, Sikkim eastwards through Assam), to the Karen hills in Myanmar, northern Thailand and Laos.[2][4]

Status

Rare .[4]

Description

See glossary for terms used.

The butterfly has a wingspan of 50 to 55 mm.[4]

Watson (1891) gives a detailed description:[5]

Male. Upperside dark vinaceous brown distinctly glossed with purple, slightly paler in the middle of the disc. Forewing with a costal streak from the base to beyond the middle of the wing rich orange ; cilia cinereous. Hindwing with the costa broadly pale ochreous ; the cilia rich orange. Base of both wings and thorax clothed with long pale green iridescent hairs. Underside paler brown washed with ochreous, which colour assumes indistinct streaks between the veins on the hindwing. Forewing with the outer margin broadly washed with deep purple, the inner margin broadly pale ochreous ; some pale streaks between the veins beyond the end of the cell ; a round black spot at the extreme base of the wing with a spot of bright orange above it ; hindwing with a similar but larger black spot. Antennae dark brown above, ochreous below ; palpi with the third joint dark brown, the second and first with the outer edge brown, the rest orange, which is the colour of the legs, the underside of the body and the anal tuft. The female differs from the male only in being larger and darker, the upperside of the hindwing concolorous with the rest of the wing, not broadly pale ochreous as in the male. The male of this species closely resembles that sex of Bibasis harisa, Moore, but differs in the forewing being much narrower, and on the hindwing in having the costal pale patch more restricted; on the underside the markings are less prominent.

Habits

Crepescular.[3]

Cited references

  1. ^ a b Card for Burara anadi in LepIndex. Accessed 16 October 2007.
  2. ^ a b Marrku Savela's Website on Lepidoptera Page on Bibasis genus.
  3. ^ a b Vane-Wright and de Jong (2003) (see TOL web pages on genus Bibasis and genus Burara in the Tree of Life Web Project) state that Bibasis contains just three diurnal species, the crepuscular remainder having been removed to Burara. The species now shifted to Burara are morphologically and behaviorally distinct from Bibasis, within which many authors have formerly included them.
  4. ^ a b c Evans,W.H.(1932) The Identification of Indian Butterflies, ser no I 2.10, pg 318.
  5. ^ Watson, E. Y. (1891) Hesperiidae indicae.

See also

References

Print

  • 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.
  • Watson, E. Y. (1891) Hesperiidae indicae. Vest and Co. Madras.

Online

  • Beccaloni, G. W., Scoble, M. J., Robinson, G. S. & Pitkin, B. (Editors). 2003. The Global Lepidoptera Names Index (LepIndex). World Wide Web electronic publication. [1] (accessed 22 September 2007).
  • Brower, Andrew V. Z. and Warren, Andrew, (2007). Coeliadinae Evans 1937. Version 21 February 2007 (temporary). http://tolweb.org/Coeliadinae/12150/2007.02.21 in The Tree of Life Web Project, http://tolweb.org/
  • Savela, Marrku Website on Lepidoptera [2] (accessed 22 September 2007)



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