Caltoris brunnea

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]

Caltoris brunnea
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
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Arthropoda
Class:
Insecta
Order:
Lepidoptera
Family:
Hesperiidae
Genus:
Caltoris
Species:
C. brunnea
Binomial name
Caltoris brunnea
(Snellen, 1876)[1]
Synonyms
  • Pamphila brunnea Snellen, 1876
  • Pamphila sodalis Mabille, 1893
  • Chapra caere de Nicéville, 1891

Larvae have been recorded feeding on Bambusa species and Imperata cylindrica.

Subspecies
  • Caltoris brunnea brunnea (Java)
  • Caltoris brunnea caere (de Nicéville, 1891) (Myanmar)

References
  1. Snellen, 1876 Lepidoptera van Batavia. Beschrijving der nieuwe soorten Tijdschrift voor entomologie 19 (3): 159-167, pl. 7
  2. Seitz, A., 1912-1927. Die Indo-Australien Tagfalter Grossschmetterlinge Erde 9
  • Caltoris at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
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