Bibasis amara

Taxobox | name = Small Green Awlet
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regnum = Animalia
phylum = Arthropoda
classis = Insecta
ordo = Lepidoptera
familia = Hesperiidae
subfamilia = Coeliadinae
genus = "Bibasis"
species = "B. amara"
binomial = "Bibasis amara"
binomial_authority = (Moore, 1865)Card for [http://internt.nhm.ac.uk/jdsml/research-curation/projects/lepindex/detail.dsml?TaxonNo=181329.0&UserID=&UserName=&&listPageURL=list%2edsml%3fsort%3dSCIENTIFIC%255fNAME%255fon%255fcard%26SCIENTIFIC%5fNAME%5fon%5fcardqtype%3dstarts%2bwith%26SCIENTIFIC%5fNAME%5fon%5fcard%3damara%26recLimit%3d30&searchPageURL=index%2edsml%3fSCIENTIFIC%5fNAME%5fon%5fcardqtype%3dstarts%2bwith%26sort%3dSCIENTIFIC%255fNAME%255fon%255fcard%26SCIENTIFIC%5fNAME%5fon%5fcard%3damara%26recLimit%3d30 "Burara amara"] in LepIndex. Accessed 16 October 2007.]
synonyms = "Ismene amara"
Moore 1865
"Burara amara"
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range_map_caption =The Small Green Awlet, or "Bibasis amara",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 Northeast India and Southeast Asia. The butterfly has now been reassigned to genus "Burara" vide Vane-Wright and de Jong (2003) and is now "Burara amara".Vane-Wright and de Jong (2003) (see TOL web pages on [http://tolweb.org/Bibasis/94259/2007.02.21 genus "Bibasis"] and [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 Small Green Awlet ranges from India, (Sikkim eastwards through Assam), to Myanmar, Thailand, Laos, Hainan and South Yunnan. It is also found in the Andaman islands.

The type locality is Northeast Bengal.

tatus

Rare in the Himalayas. Very Rare in the Andamans.Evans,W.H.(1932) The Identification of Indian Butterflies, ser no I 2.16, pg 319.]

Description

:"See glossary for terms used."

The butterfly has a wingspan of 45 to 55 mm.

Watson (1891) gives a detailed description:Watson, E. Y. (1891) Hesperiidae indicae.] :"Male and female. Upperside brown with a greenish gloss ; costal streak of forewing ochreous yellow in the male, less prominent in the female ; male with a blackish subbasal patch. Cilia of both wings short and brownish white. Body dark brown ; abdomen with greyish segmental bands. Underside, forewing brown, becoming bluish black along the base of the costa ; posterior margin broadly brownish white ; hindwing bluish black ; veins of both wings brownish white, the space between them having a greyish blue parallel line running their entire length. Both wings also with the black ochreous-yellow-encirled basal spot. Thorax in front and beneath, head, palpi, legs, middle of abdomen, and anal tuft ochreous yellow. Femora and tibiae with a black spot ; sides of abdomen black, the segmental bands prominent, Cilia greyish."

Habits

Crepescular.

Cited references

ee also

*Hesperiidae
*Coeliadinae
*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)