''Hasora anura'', the slate awl,
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is a species of hesperid butterfly found in Asia
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. In India it is found in Sikkim
Sikkim (; ) is a state in Northeastern India. It borders the Tibet Autonomous Region of China in the north and northeast, Bhutan in the east, Province No. 1 of Nepal in the west and West Bengal in the south. Sikkim is also close to the Silig ...
and the Khasi Hills
The Khasi Hills () is a low mountain formation on the Shillong Plateau in Meghalaya state of India. The Khasi Hills are part of the Garo-Khasi-Jaintia range and connects with the Purvanchal Range and larger Patkai Range further east. Khasi Hil ...
.
Range
In India the butterfly ranges from Mussoorie
Mussoorie is a hill station and a municipal board, near Dehradun city in the Dehradun district of the Indian state of Uttarakhand. It is about from the state capital of Dehradun and north of the national capital of New Delhi. The hill s ...
eastwards to Sikkim
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, the Shan states
The Shan States (1885–1948) were a collection of minor Shan kingdoms called '' muang'' whose rulers bore the title ''saopha'' in British Burma. They were analogous to the princely states of British India.
The term "Shan States" was fi ...
in Myanmar
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, Thailand
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, south-west and central China (Yunnan
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).
Status
William Harry Evans
Brigadier William Harry Evans CSI CIE DSO (born 22 July 1876 in Shillong – died 13 November 1956, Church Whitfield ) was a lepidopterist and British Army officer who served in India. He documented the butterfly fauna of India, Burma and ...
(1932) described the species as rare.
Description
Edward Yerbury Watson
Edward Yerbury Watson (27 July 1864 – 8 November 1897) was an English entomologist who specialised in Lepidoptera most notably Hesperiidae.
Yerbury Watson was born in British India to Joanna and George Edward Watson. He joined the North Lan ...
(1891) [Watson, E. Y. (1891) Hesperiidae indicae. Vest and Co. Madras.] gives a detailed description, shown below:
Cited references
See also
* Coeliadinae
* Hesperiidae
*List of butterflies of India (Coeliadinae)
A total of 22 species belonging to four genera of the subfamily Coeliadinae (family Hesperiidae), or the awls, awlets and awlkings, as they are commonly called, are found in India. These are relatively large skippers which inhabit dense forests ...
*List of butterflies of India (Hesperiidae)
India has a rich biodiversity of butterfly, butterflies, of which skipper (butterfly), skippers are a well represented family. Of the seven subfamilies belonging to the family Hesperiidae, four are found in India, comprising a total of 223 species ...
References
Print
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* Watson, E. Y. (1891) ''Hesperiidae indicae''. Vest and Co. Madras.
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Online
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*Brower, Andrew V. Z., (2007). Hasora Moore 1881. Version 21 February 2007 (under construction). Page o
genus Hasora
in The Tree of Life Web Project http://tolweb.org/.
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Hasora
Butterflies described in 1889
Butterflies of Asia
Taxa named by Lionel de Nicéville
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