Hasora leucospila

Taxobox | name = Large Banded Awl
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regnum = Animalia
phylum = Arthropoda
classis = Insecta
ordo = Lepidoptera
familia = Hesperiidae
subfamilia = Coeliadinae
genus = "Hasora"
species = "H. khoda"
binomial = "Hasora khoda"
binomial_authority = (Mabille , 1876)Card for [http://internt.nhm.ac.uk/jdsml/research-curation/projects/lepindex/detail.dsml?TaxonNo=184035.0&UserID=&UserName=&&listPageURL=list%2edsml%3fsort%3dSCIENTIFIC%255fNAME%255fon%255fcard%26SCIENTIFIC%5fNAME%5fon%5fcardqtype%3dstarts%2bwith%26SCIENTIFIC%5fNAME%5fon%5fcard%3dkhoda%26recLimit%3d30&searchPageURL=index%2edsml%3fSCIENTIFIC%5fNAME%5fon%5fcardqtype%3dstarts%2bwith%26sort%3dSCIENTIFIC%255fNAME%255fon%255fcard%26SCIENTIFIC%5fNAME%5fon%5fcard%3dkhoda%26recLimit%3d30 "Hasora khoda"] in LepIndex. Accessed 12 October 2007.]
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"Hasora khoda", commonly known as the Large Banded Awl,TOL web page on [http://www.tolweb.org/Hasora/94263 genus "Hasora"] ] Marrku Savela's Website on Lepidoptera. Page on genus [http://www.funet.fi/pub/sci/bio/life/insecta/lepidoptera/ditrysia/hesperioidea/hesperiidae/coeliadinae/hasora/index.html "Hasora"] .] is a butterfly belonging to the family Hesperiidae which is found in India, parts of Southeast Asia and Australia.

Range

The Large Banded Awl is found in India in Assam (Cachar) and the Andaman islands eastwards to Myanmar, Thailand, Philippines, Sulawesi, New Caledonia and Australia.Evans,W.H.(1932) The Identification of Indian Butterflies, ser no I 1.14, pg 315.]

The type locality is New Caledonia.

Status

Very Rare.

Host-plants

The larva has been recorded on "Millettia megasperma" and "Wisteria sinensis".

See also

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

References

Print
* (1932) "The Identification of Indian Butterflies". 2nd Ed, (i to x, pp454, Plates I to XXXII), Bombay Natural History Society, Mumbai, India.Online
*, 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).
*, (2007). Hasora Moore 1881. Version 21 February 2007 (under construction). Page on [http://tolweb.org/Hasora/94263/2007.02.21 genus Hasora] in The Tree of Life Web Project http://tolweb.org/.
* Website on Lepidoptera [http://www.nic.funet.fi/pub/sci/bio/life/index.html] (accessed 12 October 2007)