| Hidari irava | |
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| Hidari irava in Rhopalocera Malayana (figure 15) | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Hesperiidae |
| Genus: | Hidari |
| Species: | H. irava |
| Binomial name | |
| Hidari irava | |
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Hidari irava, commonly known as the coconut skipper, is a species of butterfly in the family Hesperiidae. It is found in southern Myanmar, Thailand, western Malaysia, as well as on Sumatra, Java, Borneo and the Sula Islands. [2]
The wingspan is 45–55 mm. Above dark brown with 4 typically arranged discal hyaline spots, 1 in the cell, 1 below it in the .submedian area, 1 between the median sbranches, and 1 upwards and outwards from the latter; besides there is also often a very diminutive subapical spot. The under surface is lighter, more reddish greyish-brown, and often exhibits, particularly in the several small, very indistinct spots being scattered in the disc. — The larva is dull leaf-coloured green with some dark longitudinal stripes and a brown, darker marked head; between spun leaves of various palms, particularly Cocos and sago-palms; it changes into a brown pupa with a dark lateral line in which the cover of the proboscis does not reach to the abdominal end. The imagines fly in the evening, whilst in daytime they rest in bamboo-thickets and the crowns of palms. Malacca, Sumatra, Java, Bali, nearly everywhere common. [3]
The larvae feed on Bambusa species and Cocos nucifera .
