Dark yellow-banded flat
At Fraser's Hill, Malaysia
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Hesperiidae
Genus: Aurivittia
Species:
A. aurivittata
Binomial name
Aurivittia aurivittata
(Moore, [1879])
Synonyms
  • Plesioneura aurivittata Moore, 1878
  • Celaenorrhinus aurivittata (Moore, 1878)

Aurivittia aurivittata,[1] the dark yellow-banded flat,[2] is a species of hesperiid butterfly which is found in South Asia and Southeast Asia.[3]

Range

The butterfly occurs in India, Bhutan, Myanmar, Thailand, Laos, the Malay Peninsula, Borneo and southern Yunnan.[2][4] In India, the butterfly ranges across the Himalayas to Sikkim eastwards to southern Myanmar.[2][4]

Evans: Assam to south Myanmar, south Mergui, Malaya, Sumatra, Kota Kina Balu, Borneo Savela:

Status

In 1932, William Harry Evans reported that A. aurivittata was not rare in India and north Myanmar, but was rare elsewhere.[4]

Cited references

  1. Beccaloni, G.; Scoble, M.; Kitching, I.; Simonsen, T.; Robinson, G.; Pitkin, B.; Hine, A.; Lyal, C., eds. (2003). "Aurivittia aurivittata". The Global Lepidoptera Names Index. Natural History Museum. Retrieved April 19, 2018.
  2. 1 2 3 Markku Savela's website on Lepidoptera Page on genus Celaenorrhinus., Subfamily Pyrginae, Family Hesperiidae
  3. Cong, Qian; Zhang, Jing; Shen, Jinhui; Grishin, Nick (2019). "Fifty new genera of Hesperiidae (Lepidoptera)". Insecta Mundi. 0731: 1–56.
  4. 1 2 3 Evans, W.H. (1932). The Identification of Indian Butterflies (2nd ed.). Mumbai, India: Bombay Natural History Society. p. 329, ser no I11.34.

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