''Sabera dobboe'', the yellow-streaked swift or

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's swift, is a

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of the family

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. It is found in Australia in

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and Indonesia in the

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, Papua and the

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is about 30 mm. The larvae feed on ''

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'', ''

Cordyline stricta ''Cordyline stricta'', known as the Slender Palm Lily, or Narrow-leaved Palm Lily (not to be confused with '' C. congesta'', which is also known by this common name) is an evergreen Australian plant. A shrub to 5 metres tall found in wet scl ...

'' and ''

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''. It lives in a tubular shelter made in a curled leaf of the host plant.

Subspecies

*''Sabera dobboe dobboe'' (Papua New Guinea) *''Sabera dobboe autoleon'' (Miskin, 1889) - Miskin's swift (northern Gulf and north-eastern coast of Queensland) *''Sabera dobboe hanova'' Evans, 1949 (northern New Britain and New Ireland on Papua New Guinea)

External links

The Life History of ''Sabera fuliginosa fuliginosa'' (Miskin) (Lepidoptera: Hesperiidae) and additional hostplants for the other members of the genus in Northern QueenslandAustralian Faunal Directory
Taractrocerini Butterflies described in 1883 {{Hesperiinae-stub