Bibasis vasutana

Taxobox | name = Green Awlet
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regnum = Animalia
phylum = Arthropoda
classis = Insecta
ordo = Lepidoptera
familia = Hesperiidae
subfamilia = Coeliadinae
genus = "Bibasis"
species = "B. vasutana"
binomial = "Bibasis vasutana"
binomial_authority = (Moore, 1865)Card for [http://internt.nhm.ac.uk/jdsml/research-curation/projects/lepindex/detail.dsml?TaxonNo=181396.0&UserID=&UserName=&&listPageURL=list%2edsml%3fsort%3dSCIENTIFIC%255fNAME%255fon%255fcard%26SCIENTIFIC%5fNAME%5fon%5fcardqtype%3dstarts%2bwith%26SCIENTIFIC%5fNAME%5fon%5fcard%3dvasutana%26recLimit%3d30&searchPageURL=index%2edsml%3fSCIENTIFIC%5fNAME%5fon%5fcardqtype%3dstarts%2bwith%26sort%3dSCIENTIFIC%255fNAME%255fon%255fcard%26SCIENTIFIC%5fNAME%5fon%5fcard%3dvasutana%26recLimit%3d30 "Burara vasutana"] in LepIndex. Accessed 16 October 2007.]
synonyms = "Ismene vasutana" Moore, 1865
"Burara vasutana"
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"Bibasis vasutana", or the Green Awlet,Marrku Savela's Website on Lepidoptera [http://www.funet.fi/pub/sci/bio/life/insecta/lepidoptera/ditrysia/hesperioidea/hesperiidae/coeliadinae/bibasis/index.html Page on "Bibasis" genus.] ] is a species of hesperid butterfly found in Asia. The butterfly has been reassigned to genus "Burara" vide Vane-Wright and de Jong (2003) and is now known as "Burara vasutana".Vane-Wright and de Jong (2003) (see TOL web pages on [http://tolweb.org/Bibasis/94259/2007.02.21 genus "Bibasis"] [http://tolweb.org/Burara/94260/2007.02.21 genus "Burara"] in the [http://tolweb.org/ 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.]

Range

The Green Awlet is found in Nepal, the Indian Himalayas, Myanmar, Thailand and Laos.

In India, the butterfly ranges from Kumaon, across Nepal along the Himalayas to Sikkim and Assam and eastwards towards Myanmar.Evans,W.H.(1932) The Identification of Indian Butterflies, ser no I 2.15, pg 319.]

The type locality is Darjeeling in North West Bengal.

tatus

'Not Rare' in the Himalayas.

Description

:"See glossary for terms used".

The butterfly has a wingspan of 55 to 65 mm.

Watson (1891) gives a detailed description:Watson, E. Y. (1891) Hesperiidae indicae. ]

:"Male. Upperside deep purple brown, paler on the base of the wings ; forewing with orange yellow costal basal streak. Cilia of hindwing broad and bright orange yellow. Underside glossy greyish green, the veins and narrow intermediate parallel lines blackish ; a patch on posterior half of forewing brown bordered above with blue. Third joint of palpi brown, the rest orange yellow. Head, thorax in front and beneath, legs, middle of abdomen beneath, and anal tuft bright orange yellow."

:"Female. Upperside darker brown, the base of the wings greyish blue ; forewing with two small semitransparent spots obliquely beneath the extremity."

Habits

Crepescular.

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|Watson, E. Y. (1891) "Hesperiidae indicae". 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. and aut|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/
*aut|Savela, Marrku Website on Lepidoptera [http://www.nic.funet.fi/pub/sci/bio/life/index.html] (accessed 22 September 2007)