| Blank swift | |
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| C.k. kumara Chinnar Wildlife Sanctuary, Kerala, India | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Hesperiidae |
| Genus: | Caltoris |
| Species: | C. kumara |
| Binomial name | |
| Caltoris kumara (Moore, 1878) | |
| Synonyms | |
Parnara kumara Moore, 1878 | |
Caltoris kumara, the blank swift, [1] is a butterfly belonging to the family Hesperiidae. [2] [3]
Female. Upperside dark olive brown; forewing with a transverse discal series of seven yellowish semi-diaphanous spots from before the apex; cilia pale brownish-yellow. Underside deep ochreous-brown; forewing marked as above, the lowest spot being yellow : hindwing with a single discal indistinct yellow spot between the two lower median branches, Palpi and body brown; tarsi ochreous. This species is also found in Ceylon, the male differing from the female above and beneath in the first upper and lower discal spots being absent.
It is found in the India and Sri Lanka. [1] In India, a range extension of this species to the western Himalaya was recorded in 2018. [5]
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One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain : Swinhoe, Charles (1912–1913). Lepidoptera Indica. Vol. X. Vol. 10. London: Lovell Reeve and Co. pp. 300–301. One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain : Watson, E. Y. (1891). Hesperiidae Indicae : being a reprint of descriptions of the Hesperiidae of India, Burma, and Ceylon. Madras: Vest and Company. p. 41.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: DOI inactive as of September 2024 (link)  | This Hesperiinae-related article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. |