Oerane microthyrus

Oerane microthyrus
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Hesperiidae
Genus: Oerane
Species:
O. microthyrus
Binomial name
Oerane microthyrus
Synonyms
  • Plesioneura microthyrus Mabille, 1883
  • Notocrypta neaera de Nicéville, 1891
  • Oerane neaera pusilla Fruhstorfer, 1911
  • Oerane drymo Mabille, 1913

Oerane microthyrus is a species of butterfly in the family Hesperiidae. It was described by Paul Mabille in 1883 and is found in the Indomalayan realm. Males are above quite brown, the females have differently shaped white spots on the forewing.[2] The larvae feed on Calamus oblongus (syn. Daemonorops oblonga).

Subspecies

  • O. m. microthyrus - (Malaysia to the Philippines)
  • O. m. neaera (de Nicéville, 1891) - (Burma, Thailand, Malaysia, Borneo, Sumatra, Banka, Java).


References

  1. ^ Mabille, 1883 Description d'hespériens Bull. Soc. Ent. Belg. 27 : li-lxxviii
  2. ^ Seitz, A., 1912-1927. Die Indo-Australien Tagfalter Grossschmetterlinge Erde 9
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