Kanara Swift
Caltoris canaraica (Moore, [1884]) Mal ayalam Name : കാനറ ശരശലഭം Order : Lepidopte ra Family : Hesperiidae Sub-family : Hesperiinae Sub species : Caltoris canaraica common names : Kanara Swift/ Karwar Swift DISTRIBUTION: Species distributed in South India STATUS: HABITAT: . HABITS IDENTIFICATION FEATURES Male and Female. Upperside dark brown, basal area olive-brown. Male: Forewing with two small oval semi-diaphanous white spots at the end of the cell, three spots obliquely before the apex, and three on the disk; hindwing without makings ; cilia brownish-cinereous. Under side paler brown, irrorated with ochreous scales which are thickly disposed along the costa and apex of forewing and across discal area of hindwing: forewing marked as above, also with a small whitish spot above hind margin: hindwing with two discal white spots. Female: forewing with larger spots than in the male, also with a minute dot beneath the lower discal spot and a triangular...
