Biology:Coladenia buchananii

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Short description: Species of butterfly

Coladenia buchananii
Coladenia buchananii separafasciata.jpg
Coladenia buchananii separafasciata
Scientific classification edit
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Hesperiidae
Genus: Coladenia
Species:
C. buchananii
Binomial name
Coladenia buchananii
(de Nicéville, 1889)
Synonyms
  • Celaenorrhinus buchananii de Nicéville, 1889

Coladenia buchananii is a species of spread-winged skipper butterflies. It is found in Myanmar, Thailand, Laos and China .[1]

The length of the forewings is 22.5 mm for both males and females. The forewings are dark brown with white spots. The hindwings are dark brown, the basal area covered with hairs and the discal area with a series of black spots.[2]

Subspecies

  • Coladenia buchananii buchananii (Myanmar, Thailand, Laos, China: north-western Yunnan)
  • Coladenia buchananii separafasciata Xue, Inayoshi & Hu, 2015 (southern Jiangxi, western Fujian)

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References

  1. "Coladenia at Funet". nic.funet.fi. http://www.nic.funet.fi/pub/sci/bio/life/insecta/lepidoptera/ditrysia/hesperioidea/hesperiidae/pyrginae/coladenia/index.html. Retrieved 13 October 2015. 
  2. Xue, G-X., Inayoshi, Y., Hu, H.L., Li, M. & Ren, Y.D. 2015: A new subspecies and a new synonym of the genus Coladenia (Hesperiidae, Pyrginae) from China. ZooKeys 518: 129-138 doi:10.3897/zookeys.518.10011

Wikidata ☰ Q13473081 entry