Capila Phanaeus

Capila phanaeus, commonly known as the fulvous dawnfly,^[2]^[3] is a species of hesperid butterfly found in India and Southeast Asia.

Range

The butterfly occurs in India in the northeast, namely, in Meghalaya ( Khasi Hills), Manipur and Mizoram ( Lushai Hills) onto Myanmar ( Maymyo, Karen Hills and Tavoy). It is also found in Indo-China in the countries of Thailand, southern Vietnam and Laos, in the Malay Peninsula as well as in Sumatra and Borneo.^[3]^[4]

The type locality is Sarawak, Malaysia.^[1]

This butterfly is considered rare.^[4]

^ ^a ^b Beccaloni, G.; Scoble, M.; Kitching, I.; Simonsen, T.; Robinson, G.; Pitkin, B.; Hine, A.; Lyal, C., eds. (2003). "Capila phanaeus". The Global Lepidoptera Names Index. Natural History Museum. Retrieved April 19, 2018.
^ TOL web page on genus Capila
^ ^a ^b Markku Savela's Website on Lepidoptera page on genus Capila.
^ ^a ^b Evans, W.H. (1932). The Identification of Indian Butterflies (2nd ed.). Mumbai, India: Bombay Natural History Society. p. 322, ser no I 6.2.

Print

Evans, W.H. (1932). The Identification of Indian Butterflies (2nd ed.). Mumbai, India: Bombay Natural History Society.
Watson, E. Y. (1891) Hesperiidae indicae: being a reprint of descriptions of the Hesperiidae of India, Burma, and Ceylon.. Vest and Co. Madras.

Online

Beccaloni, George; Scoble, Malcolm; Kitching, Ian; Simonsen, Thomas; Robinson, Gaden; Pitkin, Brian; Hine, Adrian; Lyal, Chris. "The Global Lepidoptera Names Index (LepIndex)". Natural History Museum, London. Retrieved 2016-10-15.
Brower, Andrew V. Z. (2007). Capila Moore 1866. Version 4 March 2007 (under construction). http://tolweb.org/Capila/95329/2007.03.04 in The Tree of Life Web Project, http://tolweb.org/
"Markku Savela's website on Lepidoptera".

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