Capila zennara

Taxobox | name = Pale Striped Dawnfly
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regnum = Animalia
phylum = Arthropoda
classis = Insecta
ordo = Lepidoptera
familia = Hesperiidae
subfamilia = Pyrginae
genus = "Capila"
species = "C. zennara"
binomial = "Capila zennara"
binomial_authority = (Moore, 1865)Card for [http://internt.nhm.ac.uk/jdsml/research-curation/projects/lepindex/detail.dsml?UserID=&UserName=&TaxonNo=181768.0&SCIENTIFIC_NAME_on_card=zennara&listPageURL=list%2edsml%3fSCIENTIFIC%5fNAME%5fon%5fcardqtype%3dstarts%2bwith%26sort%3dSCIENTIFIC%255fNAME%255fon%255fcard%26SCIENTIFIC%5fNAME%5fon%5fcard%3dlidderdali%26recLimit%3d30&searchPageURL=index%2edsml%3fsort%3dSCIENTIFIC%255fNAME%255fon%255fcard%26SCIENTIFIC%5fNAME%5fon%5fcardqtype%3dstarts%2bwith%26SCIENTIFIC%5fNAME%5fon%5fcard%3dlidderdali%26recLimit%3d30 "Capila zennara"] in LepIndex. Accessed 04 November 2007.]
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"Capila zennara", commonly known as the Pale Striped Dawnfly,TOL web page on [http://www.tolweb.org/Capila genus "Capila"] ] Marrku Savela's Website on Lepidoptera [http://www.funet.fi/pub/sci/bio/life/insecta/lepidoptera/ditrysia/hesperioidea/hesperiidae/pyrginae/capila/index.html|Page on "Capila" genus.] ] is a species of hesperid butterfly found in tropical Asia.

Range

The butterfly occurs in Sikkim,Listed in Haribal, Meena (1992) Butterflies of Sikkim, ser 547, pg 196.] Bhutan, Northeast India, and has also been recorded in Northern Thailand.Watson, E. Y. (1891) Hesperiidae indicae. Vest and Co. Madras.]

The type locality is Bengal.

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Description

:"For a key to the terms used see the glossary of Lepidopteran terms."

Watson (1891) gives a detailed description, shown below:

:"Male and female. Upperside brown ; forewing with a broad yellowish white semitransparent irregular margined discal band obliquely from middle of costa to posterior angle ; hindwing in the male exteriorly with two greyish longitudinal streaks between each vein, these being absent in the female. Abdomen with pale greyish anal tuft. Underside uniform brown, with oblique discal band as above. Front of head and palpi dull orange yellow. Body and legs brown. Cilia brown."

Watson also adds:

Cited references

ee also

*Pyrginae
*Hesperiidae
*List of butterflies of India (Pyrginae)
*List of butterflies of India (Hesperiidae)

References

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*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: being a reprint of descriptions of the Hesperiidae of India, Burma, and Ceylon.". Vest and Co. Madras.
*aut|Wynter-Blyth, M.A. (1957) "Butterflies of the Indian Region", Bombay Natural History Society, Mumbai, India.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. (2007). Capila Moore 1866. Version 04 March 2007 (under construction). http://tolweb.org/Capila/95329/2007.03.04 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)