Satarupa gopala

• Interesting Facts
• Description
• Taxonomy
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• Further Reading
• Notes

Interesting Facts

Description

Family Hesperiidae

'The Hesperiidae are members of the Superfamily Hesperioidea. Worldwide in distribution, skippers are richest in the tropics. More than 3,500 species are described, with approximately 275 in North America, many of which are found only in Arizona and Texas. Most skippers are small to medium, usually orange, brown, black, white, or gray. A few have iridescent colors. Skippers have large eyes, short antennae (often with hooked clubs), stout bodies, and three pairs of walking legs . Their flight is often rapid, making wing movement appear blurred. Adults of most species have long probicscises and feed on floral nectar, but some also take up nutrients from bird droppings. Males have scent scales found in modified forewing patches. Males of most species locate mates by perching (grass and giant-skippers), though some patrol, especially in the open-winged skippers. Globular eggs are laid singly.

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Taxonomy

Notes

Name Status: Accepted Name .

Similar Species

Members of the genus Satarupa

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Further Reading

• Catalogue of the family-group, genus-group and species-group names of the Hesperioidea (Lepidoptera) of the world / Charles A. Bridges. Urbana, Ill.: C.A. Bridges, c1994. url p. 29.
• Hesperiidae Indicae: being a reprint of descriptions of the Hesperiidae of India, Burma, and Ceylon / by E.Y. Watson. Madras: Vest, 1891. url p. 90.
• Lepidoptera indica. By F. Moore. London, 1890-1913. url p. 36.
• The Fruhstorfer collection of butterfiles: catalogue of types with general account and list of the more interesting forms. [S.l.: s.n., 1922]. url p. 78.
• The Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society. Bombay: The Society, url .
• The gazetteer of Sikhim. With an introduction by H.H. Risley. Ed. in the Bengal government secretariat. Calcutta: Printed at the Bengal secretariat press, 1894. url p. 176.
• Transactions of the Entomological Society of London. London, The Society. url p. 118, p. 294, p. 456.
• Transactions of the Zoological Society of London. [London]: Published for the Zoological Society of London by Academic Press url p. 132, p. 132.

Notes

Contributors

• Bisby, F.A., Y.R. Roskov, M.A. Ruggiero, T.M. Orrell, L.E. Paglinawan, P.W. Brewer, N. Bailly, J. van Hertum, eds (2007). Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life: 2007 Annual Checklist. Species 2000: Reading, U.K.
• LepIndex: The Global Lepidoptera Names Index. Release date: June 15, 2005
• Ruggiero M., Gordon D., Bailly N., Kirk P., Nicolson D. (2011). The Catalogue of Life Taxonomic Classification, Edition 2, Part A. In: Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life: 2011 Annual Checklist (Bisby F.A., Roskov Y.R., Orrell T.M., Nicolson D., Paglinawan L.E., Bailly N., Kirk P.M., Bourgoin T., Baillargeon G., Ouvrard D., eds). DVD; Species 2000: Reading, UK.
• The Global Lepidoptera Names Index2, 12.2, 2005.

Identifiers

• Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 2966855
• Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: Lep-188152.0
• Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 1593851

Footnotes

1. http://www.butterfliesandmoths.org/taxonomy?f=19&sci=Hesperiidae&com=Skippers [back]

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