| 词条 | Choaspes benjaminii |
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| name = Indian awlking | status = | image = Choaspes benjaminii 2 by V K Chandrasekharan.jpg | image_caption = dorsal view | image2 = Choaspes benjaminii by V K Chandrasekharan (cropped).jpg | image2_caption = ventral view | taxon = Choaspes benjaminii | authority = (Guérin-Méneville, 1843) [1] | synonyms = | range_map = | range_map_caption = }}Choaspes benjaminii,[2][3] the Indian awlking,[4] is a butterfly belonging to the family Hesperiidae.[4] The species is named after Benjamin Delessert and was described on the basis of a specimen collected by Adolphe Delessert in the Nilgiris.[5] RangeThe Indian awlking is found in Sri Lanka, India, north Myanmar, Malaysia, Taiwan and Japan.[2] In India, the Indian awlking ranges from the Palni Hills, Nilgiris and Kodagu in the south to northern and eastern India; from Kulu to Assam and eastwards onto Myanmar.[6][7] The type locality is Nilgiris in South India.[2] StatusNot rare.[7][8] Description{{Lepidopteran glossary hatnote}}The Indian awlking is 50 to 60 mm long. It is distinguished by the shining green under hindwing with black veins, orange area with black spots on the tornus. The male butterfly is shining indigo blue above. It has purplish hairs at the base which turn greenish with age. Cilia of hindwing and anal lobe broadly ochreous red. The female butterfly is dark shining green with bluish-grey hairs at the base. forewing with a broad pale cupreous brown band on posterior margin; hindwing with a broad ochreous-red lobular patch with black macular upper border and broad central angular streak.[9] Thorax greyish olive above, vertex bluish olive, abdomen brown; palpi and thorax in front and abdomen beneath, ochreous red.[9] HabitsThe Indian awlking is found in heavy jungles from {{convert|3500|to|8000|feet}} in the hills. It is attracted to flowers and animal and bird droppings. It frequents the shade in the daytime but is found flying in the open during the early and late hours of the day.[7] Life cycleCaterpillarsLarva with broad transverse dorsal black and yellow bands and two rows of white spots along the back; head, two anal segments and laterally below the bands red; face black spotted.[9] PupaPupa pinkish grey black spotted. The larva rolls itself upon the tip of the leaf on which it feeds, and when it has eaten this leaf it goes to another, and so on till it changes to pupa.[9] Host plantsThe larva (caterpillar) has been recorded on Meliosma arnottiana,Meliosma pinnata,Meliosma simplicifolia,Sabia campanulata,[10] Meliosma pungens, Meliosma rhoifolia, Meliosma rigida, Meliosma squamulata,[2] and Buddleja. Cited references1. ^{{LepIndex |id=182420}} Retrieved April 19, 2018. 2. ^1 2 3 Markku Savela's website on Lepidoptera - page on genus Choaspes. 3. ^TOL web page on genus Choaspes 4. ^{{citation-attribution|{{Cite book|url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/103505#page/253/mode/1up|title=Lepidoptera Indica. Vol. IX |last=Swinhoe|first=Charles|authorlink=Charles Swinhoe|publisher=Lovell Reeve and Co.|year=1911-1912|isbn=|location=London|pages=259–261}}|}} 5. ^{{cite book|author=Delessert, Adolphe| title= Souvenirs d´un voyage dans l´Inde exécuté de 1834 à 1839|place=Paris |publisher= Bétrune et Plon for Fortin, Masson et Cie & Langlois et Leclerq|year=1843 | url= https://archive.org/stream/souvenirsdunvoya00dele#page/79/mode/1up|pages=241–242}} 6. ^1 {{Cite book|url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/287980260_A_Synoptic_Catalogue_of_the_Butterflies_of_India|title=A Synoptic Catalogue of the Butterflies of India|last=R.K.|first=Varshney|last2=Smetacek|first2=Peter|publisher=Butterfly Research Centre, Bhimtal & Indinov Publishing, New Delhi|year=2015|isbn=978-81-929826-4-9|location=New Delhi|pages=26|doi=10.13140/RG.2.1.3966.2164}} 7. ^1 2 {{cite book|last=Wynter-Blyth |first=Mark Alexander |authorlink=Mark Alexander Wynter-Blyth |title=Butterflies of the Indian Region |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=yEkgAQAAMAAJ |year=1957 |location=Bombay, India |publisher=Bombay Natural History Society |isbn=978-8170192329 |page=470 }} 8. ^{{cite book |last=Evans |first1=W.H. |authorlink=William Harry Evans |title=The Identification of Indian Butterflies |edition=2nd |location=Mumbai, India |publisher=Bombay Natural History Society |year=1932 |page=321, ser no I 4.4 }} 9. ^1 2 3 {{citation-attribution|{{Cite book|url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/64080#page/19/mode/1up|title=Hesperiidae Indicae : being a reprint of descriptions of the Hesperiidae of India, Burma, and Ceylon|last=E. Y.|first=Watson|authorlink=Edward Yerbury Watson|publisher=Vest and Company|year=1891|isbn=|location=Madras|pages=5–6}}|}} 10. ^{{Cite journal|last=|first=|date=2018-04-10|title=Larval host plants of the buterfies of the Western Ghats, India|author1=Ravikanthachari Nitin|author2= V.C. Balakrishnan|author3= Paresh V. Churi|author4= S. Kalesh|author5= Satya Prakash|author6= Krushnamegh Kunte|url=http://threatenedtaxa.org/index.php/JoTT/article/view/3104/4402|journal=Journal of Threatened Taxa|volume=10|issue=4|pages=11495–11550|via=JoTT|doi=10.11609/jott.3104.10.4.11495-11550}} See also
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{{Taxonbar|from=Q3595558}} 3 : Coeliadinae|Butterflies of India|Butterflies described in 1843 |
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