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Plain Orange Awlet
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Hesperiidae
Subfamily: Coeliadinae
Genus: Bibasis
Species: B. Arthropods are Animals belonging to the Phylum Arthropoda (from Greek ἄρθρον arthron, " Joint " Insects ( Class Insecta) are a major group of Arthropods and the most diverse group of Animals on the Earth with over a million described Lepidoptera is an order of Insect that includes Moths and butterflies. A skipper is a Butterfly of the family Hesperiidae (superfamily Hesperioidea named after their quick darting flight habits Coeliadinae is a Subfamily of the Hesperiidae ("skippers" family of Butterflies. The awlets, Bibasis, are a Genus of Skipper butterflies. Selected species Bibasis amara - Small anadi
Binomial name
Bibasis anadi
(de Niceville, 1883)[1]
Synonyms

Choaspes anadi
de Niceville, 1883[1]
Burrara anadi

The Plain Orange Awlet, or Bibasis anadi,[2] is a species of hesperid butterfly found in India and Southeast Asia. In Scientific nomenclature, synonyms are different Scientific names used for a single Taxon. A skipper is a Butterfly of the family Hesperiidae (superfamily Hesperioidea named after their quick darting flight habits India, officially the Republic of India (भारत गणराज्य inc-Latn Bhārat Gaṇarājya; see also other Indian languages) is a country The butterfly has been reassigned to genus Burara and is now Burara anadi. The Plain Orange Awlet, or Bibasis anadi, is a species of hesperid butterfly found in India and Southeast Asia. [3]

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Range

The Plain Orange Awlet ranges from India, (Mussoorie, Sikkim eastwards through Assam), to the Karen hills in Myanmar, northern Thailand and Laos. India, officially the Republic of India (भारत गणराज्य inc-Latn Bhārat Gaṇarājya; see also other Indian languages) is a country WikipediaWikiProject Indian cities for details --> Mussoorie is a city and a Municipal board, about 34 km from Dehradun and in Dehradun district Sikkim ( Nepali:, also Sikhim) is a Landlocked Indian state nestled in the Himalayas It is the least populous state in India Assam) ( Assamese: অসম Ôxôm) is a northeastern state of India with its capital at Dispur, a suburb of the city The Karen ( self-titled Pwa Ka Nyaw Po, and also known in Thailand as the Kariang (กะเหรี่ยง or Yang, are an ethnic group in Burma, officially the Union of Myanmar ( pjìdàunzṵ mjàmmà nàinŋàndɔ̀ is the largest country by geographical area in mainland Southeast Asia. The Kingdom of Thailand (ˈtaɪlænd ราชอาณาจักรไทย, râːtɕʰa-ʔaːnaːtɕɑ̀k-tʰɑj Laos (ˈlɑːoʊs or /ˈlaʊs/ officially the Lao People's Democratic Republic, is a Landlocked country in Southeast Asia, bordered by Burma [2][4]

Status

Rare . [4]

Description

See glossary for terms used. "Tornus" redirects here For the Gastropod Genus, see Tornus (gastropod.

The butterfly has a wingspan of 50 to 55 mm. [4]

Watson (1891) gives a detailed description:[5]

Male. Upperside dark vinaceous brown distinctly glossed with purple, slightly paler in the middle of the disc. Forewing with a costal streak from the base to beyond the middle of the wing rich orange ; cilia cinereous. Hindwing with the costa broadly pale ochreous ; the cilia rich orange. Base of both wings and thorax clothed with long pale green iridescent hairs. Underside paler brown washed with ochreous, which colour assumes indistinct streaks between the veins on the hindwing. Forewing with the outer margin broadly washed with deep purple, the inner margin broadly pale ochreous ; some pale streaks between the veins beyond the end of the cell ; a round black spot at the extreme base of the wing with a spot of bright orange above it ; hindwing with a similar but larger black spot. Antennae dark brown above, ochreous below ; palpi with the third joint dark brown, the second and first with the outer edge brown, the rest orange, which is the colour of the legs, the underside of the body and the anal tuft. The female differs from the male only in being larger and darker, the upperside of the hindwing concolorous with the rest of the wing, not broadly pale ochreous as in the male. The male of this species closely resembles that sex of Bibasis harisa, Moore, but differs in the forewing being much narrower, and on the hindwing in having the costal pale patch more restricted; on the underside the markings are less prominent. Bibasis harisa, or the Orange Awlet (a name also used for Bibasis jaina) is a species of hesperid found in Asia.

Habits

Crepescular. [3]

Cited references

  1. ^ a b Card for Burara anadi in LepIndex. Accessed 16 October 2007.
  2. ^ a b Marrku Savela's Website on Lepidoptera Page on Bibasis genus.
  3. ^ a b Vane-Wright and de Jong (2003) (see TOL web pages on genus Bibasis and genus Burara in the Tree of Life Web Project) state that Bibasis contains just three diurnal species, the crepuscular remainder having been removed to Burara. The species now shifted to Burara are morphologically and behaviorally distinct from Bibasis, within which many authors have formerly included them.
  4. ^ a b c Evans,W. H. (1932) The Identification of Indian Butterflies, ser no I 2. 10, pg 318.
  5. ^ Watson, E. Y. (1891) Hesperiidae indicae.

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