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Blank swift
C.k. kumara Chinnar Wildlife Sanctuary, Kerala, India
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Hesperiidae
Genus:	Caltoris
Species:	C. kumara
Binomial name
Caltoris kumara (Moore, 1878)
Synonyms
Parnara kumara Moore, 1878

Caltoris kumara, the blank swift, is a butterfly belonging to the family Hesperiidae.

Description

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

It is found in the India and Sri Lanka. In India, a range extension of this species to the western Himalaya was recorded in 2018.

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References

1. ^ Varshney, R.K.; Smetacek, Peter (2015). A Synoptic Catalogue of the Butterflies of India. New Delhi: Butterfly Research Centre, Bhimtal & Indinov Publishing. pp. 59–60. doi:10.13140/RG.2.1.3966.2164. ISBN 978-81-929826-4-9.
2. Evans, W. H. (1949). A Catalogue of the Hesperiidae from Europe, Asia, and Australia in the British Museum. London: British Museum (Natural History). Department of Entomology. p. 454.
3. One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain: Swinhoe, Charles (1912–1913). Lepidoptera Indica. Vol. X. Vol. 10. London: Lovell Reeve and Co. pp. 300–301.
4. One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain: Watson, E. Y. (1891). Hesperiidae Indicae : being a reprint of descriptions of the Hesperiidae of India, Burma, and Ceylon. Madras: Vest and Company. p. 41.
5. Shankar, Kumar; Singh, Paramjit; Singh, Raj Shekhar (2018). "Range Extension of Ciliate Blue Anthene emolus Godart (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae) and Blank Swift Caltoris kumara Moore (Lepidoptera: Hesperiidae) into the Lower Western Himalaya". J. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc. 115: 6–7. doi:10.17087/jbnhs/2018/v115/114782 (inactive 1 November 2024).{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: DOI inactive as of November 2024 (link)

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