Capila penicillatum
| Fringed dawnfly | |
|---|---|
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| From top: male, female and male underside | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Hesperiidae |
| Genus: | Capila |
| Species: | C. penicillatum |
| Binomial name | |
| Capila penicillatum (de Nicéville, 1893)[1] | |
Capila penicillatum, the fringed dawnfly,[2][3] is a species of hesperid butterfly found in India and Southeast Asia.
Range
The butterfly occurs in India from Meghalaya (Khasi hills) eastwards to Canton, north Vietnam and Hainan.[3][4]
The type locality is the Khasi Hills.[1]
Status
It is very rare.[4]
Cited references
- 1 2 Card for Capila pennicillatum in LepIndex. Accessed 04 November 2007.
- ↑ TOL web page on genus Capila
- 1 2 Markku Savela's Website on Lepidoptera Page on genus Capila.
- 1 2 Evans, W.H. (1932). The Identification of Indian Butterflies (2nd ed.). Mumbai, India: Bombay Natural History Society. p. 323, ser no I 8.3.
References
- Evans, W.H. (1932). The Identification of Indian Butterflies (2nd ed.). Mumbai, India: Bombay Natural History Society.
- Watson, E. Y. (1891) Hesperiidae indicae: being a reprint of descriptions of the Hesperiidae of India, Burma, and Ceylon.. Vest and Co. Madras.
Online
- Beccaloni, George; Scoble, Malcolm; Kitching, Ian; Simonsen, Thomas; Robinson, Gaden; Pitkin, Brian; Hine, Adrian; Lyal, Chris. "The Global Lepidoptera Names Index (LepIndex)". Natural History Museum, London. Retrieved 2016-10-15.
- Brower, Andrew V. Z. (2007). Capila Moore 1866. Version 4 March 2007 (under construction). http://tolweb.org/Capila/95329/2007.03.04 in The Tree of Life Web Project, http://tolweb.org/
- "Markku Savela's website on Lepidoptera".
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