Biology:Suastus minuta

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Short description: Species of butterfly

Small palm bob
Small palm bob 3.jpg
Scientific classification edit
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Hesperiidae
Genus: Suastus
Species:
S. minuta
Binomial name
Suastus minuta
(Moore, 1877) [1]
Synonyms

Suastus minutus (Moore, 1877)

Suastus minuta, the small palm bob, is a butterfly belonging to the family Hesperiidae. It is found in the Indomalayan realm - south India, Sikkim to Burma, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Laos, Hainan, Vietnam and (S. m. flemingi Eliot, 1973) Malaya.[2][3][4][5][6][7]

Description

Illustration
Small palm bob
Male. Upperside dark blackish-brown, without any markings. Cilia of forewing brown, whitish at hinder angle, of hindwing white, with a few brown marks in it. Underside. Forewing paler brown, an obscure whitish mark at the upper end of the cell and another (less obscure) in the middle of the interno-median inter.space. Hindwing with the costal space broadly suffused with brown, the re.st of the wing; blue grey, sparsely covered with minute brown scales, thickest towards the outer margin, a small black spot at the end of the cell, a large one in the middle of the interno-median interspace, with a spot or two, more or less obsolescent, above it, a black spot at the anal angle, with one or two obscure spots on the margin in the interspaces above it. Antennae black, with whitish dots on the underside; palpi, head and body blackish brown above, grey on the underside, legs brown above, grey beneath.


Female like the male, but with comparatively longer forewing; on the underside, the whitish mark in the middle of the interno-median interspace is large, the grey portion of the hindwing is paler, the anal spot generally absent.


References

  1. Moore, 1877 Descriptions of Ceylon Lepidoptera Ann. Mag. nat. Hist. (4) 20 (118) : 339-348
  2. R.K., Varshney; Smetacek, Peter (2015). A Synoptic Catalogue of the Butterflies of India. New Delhi: Butterfly Research Centre, Bhimtal & Indinov Publishing, New Delhi. pp. 50–51. doi:10.13140/RG.2.1.3966.2164. ISBN 978-81-929826-4-9. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/287980260. 
  3. Seitz, A., 1912-1927. Die Indo-Australien Tagfalter Grossschmetterlinge Erde 9
  4. Corbet, A. S. & Pendlebury, H. M., 1956. The Butterflies of the Malay Peninsula Edn. 2. Edinburgh Oliver and Boyd xi+537 pp, 159 figs, 55 pls.
  5. E. Y., Watson (1891). Hesperiidae Indicae : being a reprint of descriptions of the Hesperiidae of India, Burma, and Ceylon. Madras: Vest and Company. pp. 96. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/64080#page/110/mode/1up. 
  6. W. H., Evans (1949). A Catalogue of the Hesperiidae from Europe, Asia, and Australia in the British Museum. London: British Museum (Natural History). Department of Entomology. pp. 297. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/187283#page/321/mode/1up. 
  7. This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Swinhoe, Charles (1912–1913). Lepidoptera Indica. Vol. X. 10. London: Lovell Reeve and Co.. pp. 151. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/103495#page/165/mode/1up. 

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