Bibasis oedipodea

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Bibasis oedipodea
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From top: male, female, and male underside
Scientific classification OOjs UI icon edit-ltr.svg
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Hesperiidae
Genus: Bibasis
Species:
B. oedipodea
Binomial name
Bibasis oedipodea
(Swainson, 1820) [1]
Synonyms
  • Ismene oedipodeaSwainson, 1820
  • Burara oedipodeaVane-Wright & de Jong, 2003

Bibasis oedipodea, the branded orange awlet, [2] is a species of hesperid butterfly found in South Asia and Southeast Asia. The butterfly was reassigned to the genus Burara by Vane-Wright and de Jong (2003) and is considered by them to be Burara oedipodea. [3]

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Range

The branded orange awlet is found in India, Sri Lanka, Myanmar, Malaysia, Java, Thailand and Vietnam. [2] [4] In India, the butterfly is found along the Himalayas from Mussoorie to Assam. [2] The type locality is Java in Indonesia. [2] [4]

Description

Close wing position of Burara oedipodea Swainson, 1820 - Branded Orange Awlet Close wing position of Burara oedipodea Swainson, 1820 - Branded Orange Awlet. WLB DSC 0004.jpg
Close wing position of Burara oedipodea Swainson, 1820 – Branded Orange Awlet
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Larvae and pupae

The butterfly has a wingspan of 40 to 50 mm for subspecies ataphus found in Sri Lanka, and of 65 to 70 mm in subspecies excellens found in Sulawesi. [4]

Edward Yerbury Watson (1891) gives a detailed description: [5]

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.

Biology

This butterfly is crepuscular. [3] The larva have been recorded on Hiptage benghalensis and Combretum latifolium . [2]

Cited references

  1. Beccaloni, G.; Scoble, M.; Kitching, I.; Simonsen, T.; Robinson, G.; Pitkin, B.; Hine, A.; Lyal, C., eds. (2003). "Bibasis oedipodea". The Global Lepidoptera Names Index . Natural History Museum. Retrieved April 19, 2018.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 Markku Savela's website on Lepidoptera Page on genus Bibasis.
  3. 1 2 Vane-Wright and de Jong (2003) (see TOL web pages on genus Bibasis and genus Burara in the 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.
  4. 1 2 3 Evans, W.H. (1932). The Identification of Indian Butterflies (2nd ed.). Mumbai, India: Bombay Natural History Society. pp. 317–318, ser no I 2.6.
  5. Watson, E. Y. (1891) Hesperiidae indicae. Vest and Co. Madras

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