Caltoris canaraica
{{Short description|Species of butterfly}}
{{Speciesbox
| name = Kanara swift
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| image = Karwar Swift-Bangalore.jpg
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| image2 = Kanara swift 03 (2817916054).jpg
| taxon = Caltoris canaraica
| authority = (Moore, 1883)
| synonyms = Parnara canaraica
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Caltoris canaraica, the Kanara swift, is a butterfly belonging to the family Hesperiidae.Markku Savela's website on Lepidoptera [http://ftp.funet.fi/index/Tree_of_life/insecta/lepidoptera/ditrysia/hesperioidea/hesperiidae/hesperiinae/caltoris/ Page on genus Caltoris.]{{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|page=59|edition=2015}}{{Cite book|url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/187283#page/475/mode/1up|title=A Catalogue of the Hesperiidae from Europe, Asia, and Australia in the British Museum|last=W. H.|first=Evans|author-link=William Harry Evans |publisher=British Museum (Natural History). Department of Entomology|year=1949|location=London|pages=451}}{{Source-attribution|sentence=yes|{{Cite book|url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/103495#page/340/mode/1up|title=Lepidoptera Indica. Vol. X |last=Swinhoe|first=Charles|author-link=Charles Swinhoe|publisher=Lovell Reeve and Co.|year=1912–1913|location=London|pages=326–327}}}}
Distribution
This skipper is found in Southern India (Kerala, Karnataka Tamilnadu and south-western Andhra Pradesh).
Description
{{quote|Male and Female. Upperside dark brown, basal area olive-brown. Male: Forewing with two small oval semi-diaphanous white spots at the end of the cell, three spots obliquely before the apex, and three on the disk; hindwing without makings ; cilia brownish-cinereous. Under side paler brown, irrorated with ochreous scales which are thickly disposed along the costa and apex of forewing and across discal area of hindwing: forewing marked as above, also with a small whitish spot above hind margin: hindwing with two discal white spots. Female: forewing with larger spots than in the male, also with a minute dot beneath the lower discal spot and a triangular yellow spot above hind margin ; hindwing with three discal semi-diaphanous spots. Underside: forewing as above: hindwing with four discal white spots, and a fifth at end of the cell.|Edward Yerbury Watson{{Source-attribution|sentence=yes|{{Cite book|url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/64080#page/56/mode/1up|title=Hesperiidae Indicae : being a reprint of descriptions of the Hesperiidae of India, Burma, and Ceylon|last=E. Y.|first=Watson|author-link=Edward Yerbury Watson|publisher=Vest and Company|year=1891|location=Madras|pages=42–43}}}}}}
Habitat: Canara (Ward)
Life cycle
=Host plants=
The larva (caterpillar) has been recorded on Bambusa bambos, Bambusa vulgaris and Pseudoxytenanthera monadelpha.{{Cite journal|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|doi-access=free}}
References
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Category:Butterflies described in 1883
Category:Taxa named by Frederic Moore
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