Hasora salanga

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Green awl
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Hesperiidae
Genus: Hasora
Species:
H. salanga
Binomial name
Hasora salanga
Plötz, 1885 [1]
Synonyms [2]
  • Hasora woollettiRiley, 1923

Hasora salanga, the green awl, [3] [4] is a butterfly belonging to the family Hesperiidae which is found in India, parts of Southeast Asia and Australia.

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Description

The forewing length (base to apex) is 23mm. (male). The underside of the hindwing is green. In females upper forewing has white spots in spaces 2 and 3.

Distribution

The green awl is found in India in the Nicobar Islands and eastwards to Myanmar (Dawnas to south Myanmar), Thailand, the Malay Peninsula (Malacca), Sumatra and Borneo. [4] [5]

Cited references

  1. Beccaloni, G.; Scoble, M.; Kitching, I.; Simonsen, T.; Robinson, G.; Pitkin, B.; Hine, A.; Lyal, C., eds. (2003). "Hasora salanga". The Global Lepidoptera Names Index . Natural History Museum.. Retrieved 20 April 2018.
  2. "Hasora salanga". Global Biodiversity Information Facility . Retrieved 4 July 2021.
  3. TOL web page on genus Hasora Archived 14 October 2020 at the Wayback Machine
  4. 1 2 Markku Savela's website on Lepidoptera. Page on genus Hasora.
  5. Evans, W.H. (1932). The Identification of Indian Butterflies (2nd ed.). Mumbai, India: Bombay Natural History Society. p. 315, ser no I 1.10.

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