Bibasis oedipodea

Taxobox| name = Branded Orange Awlet
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Arthropoda
classis = Insecta
ordo = Lepidoptera
unranked_familia = Rhopalocera
superfamilia = Hesperioidea
familia = Hesperiidae
subfamilia = Coeliadinae
genus = "Bibasis"
species = "B. oedipodea"
binomial = "Bibasis oedipodea"
binomial_authority = (Swainson, 1820)Card for [http://internt.nhm.ac.uk/jdsml/research-curation/projects/lepindex/detail.dsml?TaxonNo=181375.0&UserID=&UserName=&&listPageURL=list%2edsml%3fsort%3dSCIENTIFIC%255fNAME%255fon%255fcard%26SCIENTIFIC%5fNAME%5fon%5fcardqtype%3dstarts%2bwith%26SCIENTIFIC%5fNAME%5fon%5fcard%3doedipodea%26recLimit%3d30&searchPageURL=index%2edsml%3fSCIENTIFIC%5fNAME%5fon%5fcardqtype%3dstarts%2bwith%26sort%3dSCIENTIFIC%255fNAME%255fon%255fcard%26SCIENTIFIC%5fNAME%5fon%5fcard%3doedipodea%26recLimit%3d30 "Burara oedipodea"] in LepIndex. Accessed 16 October 2007.]
synonyms = "Ismene oedipodea" Swainson, 1820
"Burara oedipodea"

"Bibasis oedipodea", or the Branded Orange 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 South Asia and Southeast Asia. The butterfly has been reassigned to genus "Burara" vide Vane-Wright and de Jong (2003) and is now known as "Burara oedipodea".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 Branded Orange Awlet is found in India, Sri Lanka, Myanmar, Malaysia, Java, Thailand and Vietnam.Evans,W.H.(1932) The Identification of Indian Butterflies, ser no I 2.6, pp 317-318.]

In India, the butterfly is found along the Himalayas from Mussoorie to Assam.

The type locality is Java.

tatus

'Not Rare' in Sri Lanka.

Description

:"See glossary for terms used".

The butterfly has a wingspan of 40 to 50 mm in respect of subspp "ataxus" found in Sri Lanka, and of 65 to 70mm in respect of subspp "excellens" found in Sulawesi.

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

:"Male. Upperside ochreous olive brown ; forewing with an ochreous-red costal band which also extends across base of the cell ; a large black basal patch below the cell. Cilia of forewing pale brownish grey, of hindwing ochreous-red."

:"Female. It differs above only in the absence of the basal black patch, and beneath it in the less prominent white posterior marginal band. Underside ochreous-brown : forewing with a paler ochreous subapical and a marginal fascia, and a broad whitish posterior band : hindwing with bright ochreous red longitudinal streak between the veins, broadest between the median and submedian veins and abdominal margin ; a small black spot at the base above the costal vein. Thorax in front, head, palpi, body beneath, and legs ochreous-red ; terminal joint of palpi brown."

Habits

Crepescular.

Host-plants

The larva has been recorded on "Hiptage benghalensis" and "Combretum latifolium".

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)