Biology:Potanthus confucius
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Short description: Species of butterfly
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Hesperiidae |
| Genus: | Potanthus |
| Species: | P. confucius
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| Binomial name | |
| Potanthus confucius (Felder & Felder, 1862)
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Potanthus confucius,[1] the Chinese dart[2] or Confucian dart,[3] is a butterfly belonging to the family Hesperiidae.[4] They are found from Sri Lanka, India [2] to China and Japan and down to Sumatra and Java in Indonesia.[3] Some museum specimens have also been reported to be from Palawan in the Philippines , but due to the absence of the species in Borneo, it is possible that these were mislabeled or misidentified.[5]
Subspecies
- P. c. diana (Evans, 1932) - Maharashtra to Kerala
- P. c. dushta (Fruhstorfer, 1911) - Sikkim, northeast India to Indochina
- P. c. nina (Evans, 1932) - Andaman and Nicobar Islands[2]
Potanthus confucius diana as seen in Mangalore, Karnataka
References
- ↑ Evans, W. H. (1949). A Catalogue of the Hesperiidae from Europe, Asia, and Australia in the British Museum. London: British Museum (Natural History). Department of Entomology. pp. 382. https://archive.org/stream/catalogueofhespe00evan#page/382/mode/2up/.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Varshney, R.K.; Smetacek, Peter (2015). A Synoptic Catalogue of the Butterflies of India. New Delhi: Butterfly Research Centre, Bhimtal & Indinov Publishing, New Delhi. pp. 62–64. doi:10.13140/RG.2.1.3966.2164. ISBN 978-81-929826-4-9. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/287980260_A_Synoptic_Catalogue_of_the_Butterflies_of_India.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Savela, Markku. "Potanthus confucius (C. & R. Felder, 1862)". http://www.nic.funet.fi/pub/sci/bio/life/insecta/lepidoptera/ditrysia/hesperioidea/hesperiidae/hesperiinae/potanthus/#confucius.
- ↑ "Potanthus confucius". ZipCode Zoo. April 4, 2009. http://zipcodezoo.com/Animals/P/Potanthus_confucius/.
- ↑ Rienk de Jong & Colin Guy Treadaway (1993). "The Hesperiidae (Lepidoptera) of the Philippines". Zoologische Verhandelingen 288: 3–125. http://www.repository.naturalis.nl/document/148859.
Wikidata ☰ Q1101277 entry
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