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词条 Baracus vittatus
释义

  1. Description

  2. Subspecies

  3. Life history

  4. References

  5. See also

{{Italic title}}{{Taxobox
| name= Hedge-hopper
| image = Malabar hedge hopper from kakkayam kerala India IMG 7565.jpg
| image_caption = From Kozhikode, Kerala
| regnum = Animalia
| phylum = Arthropoda
| classis = Insecta
| ordo = Lepidoptera
| familia = Hesperiidae
| genus = Baracus
| species = B. vittatus
| binomial = Baracus vittatus
| binomial_authority = (Felder, 1862)
}}Baracus vittatus, the hedge-hopper, is a butterfly belonging to the family Hesperiidae. It is found in India and Sri Lanka.[1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8]

Description

In 1891, Edward Yerbury Watson described this butterfly as:

{{quote|Male and female. Upperside dark olive-brown. Male with the lower basal and discal area of both wings olive-grey, and a small subapical spot of the same colour also on the forewing. Female: forewing with a small olive -grey subapical spot and slender macular discal streak: hindwing with less distinct olive-grey lower basal and discal area. Underside ferruginous, the veins narrowly lined with paler ferruginous: forewing with the basal area dusky brown: hindwing with a longitudinal medial yellow fascia from base of cell, and less distinct short yellow discal streak between the veins. Body, palpi, and legs olive-brown, paler beneath.|Edward Yerbury Watson[9]}}

Subspecies

  • B. v. vittatus (Felder, 1862) Sri Lanka
  • B. v. subditus Moore, [1884] south India
  • B. v. septentrionum Wood-Mason & de Nicéville, [1887] Sikkim to northeast India
  • B. v. hampsoni Elwes & Edwards, 1897 (Hampson's hedge hopper)[2] south India
  • B. v. gotha Evans, 1949 Tamil Nadu[6][7]

Life history

The larvae feed on Gramineae.[10]

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References

1. ^Gamage, R. 2014. An Illustrated Field Guide to the Fauna of Sri Lanka, Butterflies. Akalanka Dunwathta. Baddegama
2. ^{{cite web |last=Savela |first=Markku |url=http://www.nic.funet.fi/pub/sci/bio/life/insecta/lepidoptera/ditrysia/hesperioidea/hesperiidae/hesperiinae/baracus/#vittatus |title=Baracus vittatus (Felder, 1862) |website=Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms |accessdate=June 30, 2018}}
3. ^{{Cite book|title=The Lepidoptera of Ceylon|last=Moore|first=Frederic|publisher=L. Reeve & co.|year=1880|isbn=|location=London|pages=162|url=https://archive.org/stream/lepidopteraofcey01moor#page/162/mode/1up}}
4. ^{{Cite book|url=https://archive.org/stream/transactionsofzo14zool#page/171/mode/1up|title=Transactions of the Zoological Society of London|last=Elwes & Edwards|first=|publisher=Zoological Society of London|year=1897|isbn=|location=London|pages=169–171}}
5. ^{{Cite book|url=https://archive.org/stream/proceedingsofgen83zool#page/533/mode/1up|title=Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London|last=Moore|first=Frederic|publisher=Zoological Society of London|year=1884|isbn=|location=London|pages=534}}
6. ^{{Cite book|url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/187283#page/261/mode/1up|title=A Catalogue of the Hesperiidae from Europe, Asia, and Australia in the British Museum|last=W. H.|first=Evans|publisher=British Museum (Natural History). Department of Entomology|year=1949|isbn=|location=London|pages=237–238}}
7. ^{{cite book|last1=Varshney|first1=R.|last2=Smetacek|first2=P.|title=A Synoptic Catalogue of the Butterflies of India.|publisher=Butterfly Research Centre, Bhimtal and Indinov Publishing|location=New Delhi|pages=40–41|edition=2015}}
8. ^{{citation-attribution|{{Cite book|url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/103495#page/144/mode/1up|title=Lepidoptera Indica. Vol. X |last=Swinhoe|first=Charles|authorlink=Charles Swinhoe|publisher=Lovell Reeve and Co.|year=1912-1913|isbn=|location=London|pages=130–133}}|}}
9. ^{{Cite book|url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/64080#page/165/mode/1up|title=Hesperiidae Indicae: being a reprint of descriptions of the Hesperiidae of India, Burma, and Ceylon|last=E. Y.|first=Watson|publisher=Vest and Company|year=1891|isbn=|location=Madras|pages=151}}
10. ^Robinson, G. S., P. R. Ackery, I. J. Kitching, G. W. Beccaloni & L. M. Hernández, 2010. HOSTS - A Database of the World's Lepidopteran Hostplants. Natural History Museum, London. nhm hosts

See also

  • Papilionidae
  • List of butterflies of India
  • List of butterflies of India (Hesperiidae)
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2 : Hesperiinae|Butterflies of India

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