Caltoris

Caltoris
Caltoris cahira
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Hesperiidae
Subfamily:	Hesperiinae
Tribe:	Baorini
Genus:	Caltoris C. Swinhoe, 1893 [1]
Synonyms
MilenaEvans, 1912

Caltoris is a genus of skipper butterflies. Like several related genera, they are called "swifts".It is found in the Indomalayan realm and the Australasian realm. ^[2]

Species

• Caltoris aurociliata (Elwes & Edwards, 1897) Sikkim, Assam
• Caltoris beraka (Plötz, 1885) Celebes
• Caltoris boisduvalii (C. Felder & R. Felder, [1867]) Papua
• Caltoris bromus (Leech, 1894) India, China, Indo-China, Malay Peninsula, Sumatra, Java, Lesser Sunda Is., Borneo, Palawan, Philippines
• Caltoris brunnea (Snellen, 1876) Java, Myanmar
• Caltoris cahira , colon swift,
  • Caltoris cahira austeni , Austen's swift
• Caltoris canaraica , Kanara swift
• Caltoris confusa
• Caltoris cormasa (Hewitson, 1876) India to Malaya
• Caltoris kumara , blank swift
• Caltoris malaya (Evans, 1926) Malay Peninsula, Borneo, Java
• Caltoris mehavagga (Fruhstorfer, 1911) Celebes, Sula, Buru
• Caltoris nirwana (Plötz, 1882) Java to West China
• Caltoris philippina , Philippine swift
• Caltoris plebeia (de Nicéville, 1887) tufted swift. Sikkim to Borneo
• Caltoris septentrionalis Koiwaiya, 1996
• Caltoris sirius (Evans, 1926) Tibet
• Caltoris tenuis (Evans, 1932) Myanmar, Thailand, Laos
• Caltoris tulsi (de Nicéville, [1884]) purple swift. India to Malaya, South China, Java

The larvae variously feed on Poaceae, Arecaceae:- Bambusa , Imperata , Dendrocalamus , Sinarundinaria , Oryza , Saccharum . ^[3]

References

1. Swinhoe, Charles (1893). "A List of the Lepidoptera of the Khasi Hills. Part I". Transactions of the Entomological Society of London. 1893 (3): 267-330.
2. Seitz, A. (1912-1927). Die Indo-Australien Tagfalter Grossschmetterlinge Erde. 9.
3. Robinson, Gaden S.; Ackery, Phillip R.; Kitching, Ian J.; Beccaloni, George W.; Hernández, Luis M. (2010). "Search the database - introduction and help". HOSTS - A Database of the World's Lepidopteran Hostplants. Natural History Museum, London. doi:10.5519/havt50xw.

• Savela, Markku (November 28, 2015). "Caltoris Swinhoe, 1893". Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms. Retrieved April 7, 2020.