| Kanara swift | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Hesperiidae |
| Genus: | Caltoris |
| Species: | C. canaraica |
| Binomial name | |
| Caltoris canaraica (Moore, 1883) | |
| Synonyms | |
Parnara canaraica | |
Caltoris canaraica, the Kanara swift, [1] is a butterfly belonging to the family Hesperiidae. [2] [1] [3] [4]
This skipper is found in Southern India (Kerala, Karnataka Tamilnadu and south-western Andhra Pradesh). [1]
Male and Female. Upperside dark brown, basal area olive-brown. Male: Forewing with two small oval semi-diaphanous white spots at the end of the cell, three spots obliquely before the apex, and three on the disk; hindwing without makings ; cilia brownish-cinereous. Under side paler brown, irrorated with ochreous scales which are thickly disposed along the costa and apex of forewing and across discal area of hindwing: forewing marked as above, also with a small whitish spot above hind margin: hindwing with two discal white spots. Female: forewing with larger spots than in the male, also with a minute dot beneath the lower discal spot and a triangular yellow spot above hind margin ; hindwing with three discal semi-diaphanous spots. Underside: forewing as above: hindwing with four discal white spots, and a fifth at end of the cell.
Habitat: Canara (Ward)
The larva (caterpillar) has been recorded on Bambusa bambos , Bambusa vulgaris and Pseudoxytenanthera monadelpha . [6]
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One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a work now in the public domain : Swinhoe, Charles (1912–1913). Lepidoptera Indica. Vol. X. London: Lovell Reeve and Co. pp. 326–327. One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a work now in the public domain: E. Y., Watson (1891). Hesperiidae Indicae : being a reprint of descriptions of the Hesperiidae of India, Burma, and Ceylon. Madras: Vest and Company. pp. 42–43.  | This Hesperiinae-related article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. |