Caltoris kumara
{{Short description|Species of butterfly}}
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| name = Blank swift
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| image = Blank swift (Caltoris kumara kumara).jpg
| image_caption = C.k. kumara
Chinnar Wildlife Sanctuary, Kerala, India
| taxon = Caltoris kumara
| authority = (Moore, 1878)
| synonyms = Parnara kumara Moore, 1878
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Caltoris kumara, the blank swift, is a butterfly belonging to the family Hesperiidae.{{Cite book |last=Evans |first=W. H. |url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/187283#page/478/mode/1up |title=A Catalogue of the Hesperiidae from Europe, Asia, and Australia in the British Museum |publisher=British Museum (Natural History). Department of Entomology |year=1949 |location=London |pages=454 |authorlink=William Harry Evans}}{{Source-attribution|sentence=yes|{{Cite book |last=Swinhoe |first=Charles |url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/103495#page/314/mode/1up |title=Lepidoptera Indica. Vol. X |publisher=Lovell Reeve and Co. |year=1912–1913 |volume=10 |location=London |pages=300–301 |authorlink=Charles Swinhoe}}}}
Description
{{quote|Female. Upperside dark olive brown; forewing with a transverse discal series of seven yellowish semi-diaphanous spots from before the apex; cilia pale brownish-yellow. Underside deep ochreous-brown; forewing marked as above, the lowest spot being yellow : hindwing with a single discal indistinct yellow spot between the two lower median branches, Palpi and body brown; tarsi ochreous. This species is also found in Ceylon, the male differing from the female above and beneath in the first upper and lower discal spots being absent.|Edward Yerbury Watson{{Source-attribution|sentence=yes|{{Cite book |last=Watson |first=E. Y. |url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/64080#page/55/mode/1up |title=Hesperiidae Indicae : being a reprint of descriptions of the Hesperiidae of India, Burma, and Ceylon |publisher=Vest and Company |year=1891 |location=Madras |pages=41 |authorlink=Edward Yerbury Watson}}}}}}
It is found in the India and Sri Lanka.{{Cite book |last1=Varshney |first1=R.K. |url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/287980260 |title=A Synoptic Catalogue of the Butterflies of India |last2=Smetacek |first2=Peter |publisher=Butterfly Research Centre, Bhimtal & Indinov Publishing |year=2015 |isbn=978-81-929826-4-9 |location=New Delhi |pages=59–60 |doi=10.13140/RG.2.1.3966.2164}}
In India, a range extension of this species to the western Himalaya was recorded in 2018.{{Cite journal |last1=Shankar |first1=Kumar |last2=Singh |first2=Paramjit |last3=Singh |first3=Raj Shekhar |year=2018 |title=Range Extension of Ciliate Blue Anthene emolus Godart (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae) and Blank Swift Caltoris kumara Moore (Lepidoptera: Hesperiidae) into the Lower Western Himalaya |url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/343513605 |journal=J. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc. |volume=115 |pages=6–7 |doi=10.17087/jbnhs/2018/v115/114782 |doi-broken-date=1 November 2024}}
File:Blank Swift (Caltoris kumara) 03 Egg (2016.08.01).jpg|Egg
File:Blank Swift (Caltoris kumara) 14 Larva (2016.08.24).jpg|Larva
File:Blank Swift (Caltoris kumara) 16 Pupa (2016.08.28).jpg|Pupa
File:Blank Swift Caltoris kumara (5225841923).jpg|Imago
References
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Category:Butterflies of Sri Lanka
Category:Butterflies of Indochina
Category:Taxa named by Frederic Moore
Category:Butterflies described in 1878
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