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