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Sabera dobboe

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Kingdom
  
Animalia

Family
  
Hesperiidae

Scientific name
  
Sabera dobboe

Rank
  
Species

Class
  
Insecta

Genus
  
Sabera

Phylum
  
Arthropoda

Order
  
Butterflies and moths

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Sabera dobboe, the yellow-streaked swift or Miskin's swift, is a butterfly of the Hesperiidae family. It is found in Australia in Queensland, Papua New Guinea and Indonesia in the Aru Islands, Papua and the Kei Islands.

The wingspan is about 30 mm.

The larvae feed on Cordyline terminalis, Cordyline australis, Cordyline stricta and Cordyline cannifolia. It lives in a tubular shelter made in a curled leaf of the host plant.

Subspecies

  • Sabera dobboe dobboe (Papua New Guinea)
  • Sabera dobboe autoleon (Miskin, 1889) - Miskin's swift (northern Gulf and north-eastern coast of Queensland)
  • Sabera dobboe hanova Evans, 1949 (northern New Britain and New Ireland on Papua New Guinea)

    • References

    Sabera dobboe Wikipedia
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