Polytremis lubricans

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Contiguous swift
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Hesperiidae
Genus: Polytremis
Species:
P. lubricans
Binomial name
Polytremis lubricans
Synonyms
  • Goniloba lubricans Herrich-Schäffer, 1869
  • Gegenes contigua Mabille, 1877
  • Hesperia toona Moore, 1878
  • Parnara toona; Piepers & Snellen, 1910
  • Polytrema lubricans
  • Baoris lubricans

Polytremis lubricans, the contiguous swift, [2] is a butterfly belonging to the family Hesperiidae. It is found in the Indomalayan realm. [2] [3] [4] [5] [6]

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Subspecies

Description

Frederic Moore (1878) gives a detailed description for Hesperia toona:

Male. Differs in the fore wings being slightly more elongate, the hind wing more convex exteriorly, and the anal angle less lobed; markings above similar, those on the fore wing narrower, the spot between the. median branches elongated and extending to their basal angle; those on the hind wing very small, the outer spot crossed by a vein. Underside brownish-ochreous; base of fore wing slightly dusky-ochreous; markings as above.

—  Frederic Moore [7]

Biology

The larva on feeds on Imperata , Microstegium , Miscanthus [8]

References

  1. ↑ Herrich-Schäffer, 1869 Versuch einer systematischen Anordnung der Schmetterlinge CorrespBl. zool.-min. Ver. Regensburg 23 (4): 56-64, (5): 67-77, (9): 130-141, (11): 163-172, (12): 184-204
  2. 1 2 R.K., Varshney; Smetacek, Peter (2015). A Synoptic Catalogue of the Butterflies of India. New Delhi: Butterfly Research Centre, Bhimtal & Indinov Publishing, New Delhi. p. 58. doi:10.13140/RG.2.1.3966.2164. ISBN   978-81-929826-4-9.
  3. ↑ Seitz, A., 1912-1927. Die Indo-Australien Tagfalter Grossschmetterlinge Erde 9
  4. ↑ W. H., Evans (1949). A Catalogue of the Hesperiidae from Europe, Asia, and Australia in the British Museum. London: British Museum (Natural History). Department of Entomology. p. 446.
  5. ↑ PD-icon.svg 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. London: Lovell Reeve and Co. p. 315.
  6. ↑ E. Y., Watson (1891). Hesperiidae Indicae : being a reprint of descriptions of the Hesperiidae of India, Burma, and Ceylon. Madras: Vest and Company. p. 45.
  7. ↑ PD-icon.svg One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain :Moore, Frederick (1878). Proceedings of the general meetings for scientific business of the Zoological Society of London. p. 689.
  8. ↑ Vane-Wright & de Jong, 2003 The butterflies of Sulawesi: annotated checklist for a critical island fauna Zool. Verh. Leiden 343: 3-268, pl. 1-16
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