| Orange awlet | |
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| Male (top), female and male underwing | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Hesperiidae |
| Genus: | Burara |
| Species: | B. harisa |
| Binomial name | |
| Burara harisa (de Niceville, 1883) [1] | |
| Synonyms | |
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Burara harisa, the orange awlet, [2] is a species of hesperid found in Asia. The butterfly was reassigned to genus Burara by Vane-Wright and de Jong (2003) and is considered by them to be Burara harisa. [3]
The orange awlet is found in India, Myanmar, Malaysia, Java, Singapore, Hong Kong and north Vietnam. [2]
In India, the butterfly is found along the Himalayas from Sikkim to Assam and eastwards to south Myanmar. It also has been recorded from the Andaman islands. [2] [4]
It is considered by William Harry Evans to be very rare in Hong Kong, rare in South India, but not rare in the Himalayas. [4]
The butterfly has a wingspan of 45 to 55 mm. [4]
Edward Yerbury Watson (1891) gives a detailed description: [5]
Male and female brown.
Male. Upperside dull vinaceous brown, palest on the disk; forewing with an orange yellow costal streak; hindwing broadly along anterior margin pale buff yellow. Body greyish. Cilia of hindwing orange yellow. Underside paler suffused with orange yellow; forewing with a curved series of pale purple narrow streaks between the veins before the apex, and a broad pale buff patch along the posterior margin; hindwing with the veins and lines between them and cilia orange yellow: a black orange yellow encircled basal spot on both wings; a discal series of pale purplish streaks. Third joint of palpi brown; palpi beneath, front and sides of thorax, legs and streak alongside of abdomen orange yellow; middle of thorax and abdomen and anal tuft orange yellow.
Female. Upperside dark purple brown; the base of wings greyish, with steel blue gloss. Body greyish. Cilia of hindwing pale orange yellow. Underside as in male; posterior margin of forewing with a less defined pale patch.
— Watson
This butterfly is crepuscular. [3]
The larva has been recorded on Zingiber zerumbet (Zingiberaceae). [2]
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