Burara oedipodea
Species of butterfly
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Burara oedipodea, the branded orange awlet,[2] is a species of hesperid butterfly found in South Asia and Southeast Asia. The butterfly was reassigned to the genus Burara by Vane-Wright and de Jong (2003) and is considered by them to be Burara oedipodea.[3]
| Burara oedipodea | |
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| From top: male, female, and male underside | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Hesperiidae |
| Genus: | Burara |
| Species: | B. oedipodea |
| Binomial name | |
| Burara oedipodea | |
| Synonyms | |
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Ismene oedipodea Swainson, 1820 | |
Range
Description
The butterfly has a wingspan of 40 to 50 mm for subspecies ataphus found in Sri Lanka, and of 65 to 70 mm in subspecies excellens found in Sulawesi.[4]
Edward Yerbury Watson (1891) gives a detailed description:[5]
Male. Upperside ochreous olive brown; forewing with an ochreous-red costal band which also extends across base of the cell; a large black basal patch below the cell. Cilia of forewing pale brownish grey, of hindwing ochreous-red.
Female. It differs above only in the absence of the basal black patch, and beneath it in the less prominent white posterior marginal band. Underside ochreous-brown: forewing with a paler ochreous subapical and a marginal fascia, and a broad whitish posterior band: hindwing with bright ochreous red longitudinal streak between the veins, broadest between the median and submedian veins and abdominal margin; a small black spot at the base above the costal vein. Thorax in front, head, palpi, body beneath, and legs ochreous-red; terminal joint of palpi brown.
Biology
This butterfly is crepuscular.[3] The larva have been recorded on Hiptage benghalensis and Combretum latifolium.[2]
