Caprona alida

Caprona alida, the spotted angle or Alida angle,[1] is a butterfly belonging to the family Hesperiidae. It is found in India,[1][2] Sri Lanka, Myanmar, Thailand, Vietnam, Laos, Hainan and southern China. It was first described by Lionel de Nicéville in 1891.[3][4][5][6]

Caprona alida
Caprona alida vespa
Caprona alida alida
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Hesperiidae
Genus: Caprona
Species:
C. alida
Binomial name
Caprona alida
Synonyms
  • Abaratha alida de Nicéville, 1891
  • Caprona elwesii Watson, 1897
  • Abaratha parvopunctata Mabille & Boullet, 1917

Subspecies

The subspecies of Caprona alida include:[5]

  • Caprona alida lanka Evans, 1932 (Sri Lanka)
  • Caprona alida vespa Evans, 1949 (India)
  • Caprona alida yerburyi Evans, 1949 (Pakistan)
  • Caprona alida alida (de Nicéville, 1891) (Thailand, N. India, Myanmar, Laos and Vietnam)

Description
For a key to the terms used, see Glossary of entomology terms.

Male. Upper.side ochreous-brown. Forewing with five sub-apical white spots, the three from near the costa in an outwardly oblique straight line, the two lower ones minute, sometimes absent; a small round dot within the cell before its middle, a spot within the outer end, highly excavated on its outer side, its upper half merely a short curved streak, a round spot in the middle of the first median interspace, a round dot outside towards the base of the second median interspace, a minute dot immediately below the lower spot and a small round spot inwardly below it, both in the interno-median interspace, a very minute dot close to the costa at its middle, all the spots and dots white and semi-hyaline; an indistinct brown narrow bar before the middle across the interno-median interspace; and an indistinct, irregular, recurved brown lunular discal line. Hindwing with indistinct, lunular, brown, discal and sub-marginal lines; both wings with brown outer marginal line and white cilia, with small brown patches at the vein ends. Underside pale brown, spots and markings as above, both wings covered and smeared with white scaling, the outer marginal line brown, with a little brown suffusion on its inner side. Antennae with the underside of the upper half of the club ochreous, a white streak on the lower half, the shaft with white dots. Palpi, body beneath and the legs white; head and body above concolorous with the wings, a white spot on each side of the head. Female similar to the male, duller in colour above and not nearly so white beneath, and across the disc of the forewing beneath there is a rather broad, indistinct brownish fascia.

— Charles Swinhoe, Lepidoptera Indica. Vol. X[6]

References
  1. "Caprona alida de Nicéville, 1891 – Alida Angle". Butterflies of India, v. 2.28. Indian Foundation for Butterflies. Retrieved 2018-03-29.
  2. R.K., Varshney; Smetacek, Peter (2015). A Synoptic Catalogue of the Butterflies of India. New Delhi: Butterfly Research Centre, Bhimtal & Indinov Publishing, New Delhi. p. 33. doi:10.13140/RG.2.1.3966.2164. ISBN 978-81-929826-4-9.
  3. Inayoshi, Yutaka. "Caprona alida alida (de Nicéville,1891)". Butterflies in Indo-China.
  4. Savela, Markku. "Caprona alida (de Nicéville, 1891)". Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms. Retrieved June 30, 2018.
  5. W. H., Evans (1949). A Catalogue of the Hesperiidae from Europe, Asia, and Australia in the British Museum. London: British Museum (Natural History). Department of Entomology. p. 163.
  6. One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a work now in the public domain: Swinhoe, Charles (1912–1913). Lepidoptera Indica. Vol. X. London: Lovell Reeve and Co. p. 76.CS1 maint: date format (link)


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