Hasora schoenherr
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| name = Yellow banded awl
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| taxon = Hasora schoenherr
| authority = (Latreille, 1824) {{LepIndex |id=184086}} Retrieved April 20, 2018.
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Hasora schoenherr, commonly known as the yellow banded awl,TOL web page on [http://www.tolweb.org/Hasora/94263 genus Hasora] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201014030114/http://www.tolweb.org/Hasora/94263 |date=2020-10-14 }}Markku Savela's website on Lepidoptera - page on genus [http://www.funet.fi/pub/sci/bio/life/insecta/lepidoptera/ditrysia/hesperioidea/hesperiidae/coeliadinae/hasora/index.html Hasora]. is a butterfly belonging to the family Hesperiidae which is found in India and Southeast Asia.
Range
The yellow banded awl is found in India from Assam and Nagaland eastwards to Southeast Asia, namely, Thailand, Laos, Vietnam, the Malay Peninsula, Singapore and the Indonesian archipelago (specifically recorded at Borneo, Sumatra and Palawan).{{cite book |last=Evans |first1=W.H. |author-link=William Harry Evans |title=The Identification of Indian Butterflies |edition=2nd |location=Mumbai, India |publisher=Bombay Natural History Society |year=1932 |page=316, ser no I1.17 }} The type locality is Java.
Description
The butterfly has a wingspan of {{convert|45|-|55|mm}} in the Asian mainland while it achieves {{convert|50|-|60|mm|abbr=on}} in the Philippines.
The butterfly is a plain dark brown above and resembles the common banded awl (Hasora chromus), except that it has a broad yellow central band on the upper and under of the hindwings. The apex of the under forewing is purple washed. Both sexes have large yellow discal and apical spots.
References
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Further reading
- {{cite web |url=http://www.nhm.ac.uk/our-science/data/lepindex/ |title=The Global Lepidoptera Names Index (LepIndex) |last1=Beccaloni |first1=George |last2=Scoble |first2=Malcolm |last3=Kitching |first3=Ian |last4=Simonsen |first4=Thomas |last5=Robinson |first5=Gaden |last6=Pitkin |first6=Brian |last7=Hine |first7=Adrian |last8=Lyal |first8=Chris |publisher=Natural History Museum, London |access-date=2016-10-15 }}
- Brower, Andrew V. Z., (2007). Hasora Moore 1881. Version 21 February 2007 (under construction). Page on [http://tolweb.org/Hasora/94263/2007.02.21 genus Hasora] in The Tree of Life Web Project http://tolweb.org/.
- {{cite book |last=Evans |first1=W.H. |author-link=William Harry Evans |title=The Identification of Indian Butterflies |edition=2nd |location=Mumbai, India |publisher=Bombay Natural History Society |year=1932 }}
- {{cite web |url=http://www.nic.funet.fi/pub/sci/bio/life/insecta/lepidoptera/ |title=Markku Savela's website on Lepidoptera }}
- {{cite book|last=Wynter-Blyth |first=Mark Alexander |author-link=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 }}
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Category:Butterflies described in 1824
Category:Butterflies of Singapore
Category:Taxa named by Pierre André Latreille
Category:Butterflies of Malaysia
Category:Butterflies of Borneo