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Bibasis harisa

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Kingdom
  
Genus
  
Phylum
  
Rank
  
Species

Family
  
Hesperiidae

Scientific name
  
Bibasis harisa

Higher classification
  
Bibasis

Order
  
Butterflies and moths

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Similar
  
Butterfly, Skipper, Bibasis, Bibasis sena, Bibasis jaina

Bibasis harisa, the orange awlet, is a species of hesperid found in Asia. The butterfly was reassigned to genus Burara by Vane-Wright and de Jong (2003) and is considered by them to be Burara harisa.

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Range

The orange awlet is found in India, Myanmar, Malaysia, Java, Singapore, Hong Kong and north Vietnam.

In India, the butterfly is found along the Himalayas from Sikkim to Assam and eastwards to south Myanmar. It also has been recorded from the Andaman islands.

The type locality is Bengal.

Status

It is considered by William Harry Evans to be very rare in Hong Kong, rare in South India, but not rare in the Himalayas.

Description

The butterfly has a wingspan of 45 to 55 mm.

Edward Yerbury Watson (1891) gives a detailed description:

Male and female brown.

Male. Upperside dull vinaceous brown, palest on the disk; forewing with an orange yellow costal streak; hindwing broadly along anterior margin pale buff yellow. Body greyish. Cilia of hindwing orange yellow. Underside paler suffused with orange yellow; forewing with a curved series of pale purple narrow streaks between the veins before the apex, and a broad pale buff patch along the posterior margin; hindwing with the veins and lines between them and cilia orange yellow: a black orange yellow encircled basal spot on both wings; a discal series of pale purplish streaks. Third joint of palpi brown; palpi beneath, front and sides of thorax, legs and streak alongside of abdomen orange yellow; middle of thorax and abdomen and anal tuft orange yellow.

Female

Habits

This butterfly is crepuscular.

Host plants

The larva has been recorded on Zingiber zerumbet (Zingiberaceae).

References

Bibasis harisa Wikipedia


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