Suada swerga

Suada swerga
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Hesperiidae
Genus:	Suada
Species:	S. swerga
Binomial name
Suada swerga de Nicéville, 1895

Suada swerga, the Grass bob, ^[1] is a butterfly belonging to the family Hesperiidae. ^[1]

Subspecies

• S. s. swerga de Niceville, [1884] Sikkim, Vietnam, Burma, Thailand, Laos, Malaysia
• S. s. triplex (Plötz, 1884) Ceylon, Malaya, Java.

Description

Above dark brown, lighter yellowish at the costa and the inner-margin of the basal half in the fore wing and in the whole disc of the hindwing excepting the costal area. White hyaline spots in the disc and before the distal margin of the ore wing. Hindwing beneath whitish yellow with a brown distal margin and a marginal wedge between the median branches. ^[2]

References

1. 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. 50. doi:10.13140/RG.2.1.3966.2164. ISBN   978-81-929826-4-9.
2. Seitz, A., 1912-1927. Die Indo-Australien Tagfalter. Theclinae, Poritiinae, Hesperiidae. Grossschmetterlinge Erde 9: 799-1107, pls. 138-175.

• Natural History Museum Lepidoptera genus database
• Suada de Nicéville, 1895 at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms