Caltoris

Caltoris
Caltoris cahira
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Hesperiidae
Subfamily: Hesperiinae
Tribe: Gegenini
Genus: Caltoris
Swinhoe, 1893 [1]
Species

Numerous, see text

Caltoris is a genus of skipper butterflies. Like several related genera, they are called "swifts".It is found in the Indomalayan realm and the Australasian realm.[2]

Species

  • Caltoris aurociliata (Elwes & Edwards, 1897) Sikkim, Assam
  • Caltoris beraka (Plötz, 1885) Celebes
  • Caltoris boisduvalii (C. & R. Felder, [1867]) Papua
  • Caltoris bromus (Leech, 1894) India, China, Indo-China, Malay Peninsula, Sumatra, Java, Lesser Sunda Is., Borneo, Palawan, Philippines
  • Caltoris brunnea (Snellen, 1876) Java, Burma
  • Caltoris cahira, colon swift,
  • Caltoris canaraica, Kanara swift
  • Caltoris confusa
  • Caltoris cormasa (Hewitson, 1876) India to Malaya
  • Caltoris kumara, blank swift
  • Caltoris malaya (Evans, 1926) Malay Peninsula, Borneo, Java
  • Caltoris mehavagga (Fruhstorfer, 1911) Celebes, Sula, Buru
  • Caltoris nirwana (Plötz, 1882) Java to West China
  • Caltoris philippina, Philippine swift
  • Caltoris plebeia (de Nicéville, 1887) tufted swift. Sikkim to Borneo
  • Caltoris septentrionalis Koiwaiya, 1996
  • Caltoris sirius (Evans, 1926) Tibet
  • Caltoris tenuis (Evans, 1932) Burma, Thailand, Laos
  • Caltoris tulsi (de Nicéville, [1884]) purple swift. India to Malaya, South China, Java

The larvae variously feed on Poaceae, Arecaceae :-Bambusa, Imperata, Dendrocalamus, Sinarundinaria, Oryza, Saccharum.[3]

References

  1. ↑ Swinhoe, 1893 A List of the Lepidoptera of the Khasi Hills. Part I Trans. ent. Soc. Lond. 1893 (3) : 267-330
  2. ↑ Seitz, A., 1912-1927. Die Indo-Australien Tagfalter Grossschmetterlinge Erde 9
  3. ↑ Robinson, G. S., P. R. Ackery, I. J. Kitching, G. W. Beccaloni y L. M. Hernández (2010) HOSTS - A Database of the World's Lepidopteran Hostplants. Natural History Museum, London. http://www.nhm.ac.uk/hosts.


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