Caltoris brunnea, the dark branded swift, is a butterfly in the family Hesperiidae. It was described by Samuel Constantinus Snellen van Vollenhoven in 1876. It is found in the Indomalayan realm in Burma and in Java as subspecies C. b. caere (de Nicéville, 1891).[2]
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| Figure 33 is Caltoris brunnea caere from Lionel de Nicéville's 1891 "On New and Little-Known Butterflies from the Indo-Malayan Region" | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Hesperiidae |
| Genus: | Caltoris |
| Species: | C. brunnea
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| Caltoris brunnea | |
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Larvae have been recorded feeding on Bambusa species and Imperata cylindrica.
Subspecies
edit- Caltoris brunnea brunnea (Java)
- Caltoris brunnea caere (de Nicéville, 1891) (Myanmar)
References
editExternal links
edit- Caltoris at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
Data related to Caltoris brunnea at Wikispecies
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