Hasora khoda

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Large banded awl
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Hesperiidae
Genus: Hasora
Species:
H. khoda
Binomial name
Hasora khoda
(Mabille , 1876) [1]

Hasora khoda, the large banded awl, [2] [3] is a butterfly belonging to the family Hesperiidae which is found in India, parts of Southeast Asia and Australia.

Description

It is a butterfly with the characteristic shape of the Hesperiidae , massive with wings positioned in a “V” and with a triangular profile.With a wingspan of approximately 44 mm, it is dark brown in colour for the male, lighter brown for the female with an ornamentation of small yellow spots in the central part of the forewings and on the underside of the hindwings a white line across The caterpillar is black with white longitudinal lines and white hairs.

Range

The large banded awl is found in India in Assam (Cachar) and the Andaman islands eastwards to Myanmar, Thailand, the Philippines, Sulawesi, New Caledonia and Australia. [3] [4]

The type locality is New Caledonia. [3]

Status

Very rare. [4]

Host-plants

The larva has been recorded on Callerya megasperma and Wisteria sinensis . [3]

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References

  1. Beccaloni, G.; Scoble, M.; Kitching, I.; Simonsen, T.; Robinson, G.; Pitkin, B.; Hine, A.; Lyal, C., eds. (2003). "Hasora khoda". The Global Lepidoptera Names Index . Natural History Museum. Retrieved April 20, 2018.
  2. TOL web page on genus Hasora Archived 2020-10-14 at the Wayback Machine
  3. 1 2 3 4 Markku Savela's website on Lepidoptera. Page on genus Hasora.
  4. 1 2 Evans, W.H. (1932). The Identification of Indian Butterflies (2nd ed.). Mumbai, India: Bombay Natural History Society. p. 315, ser no I 1.14.

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