Suastus minuta

Suastus minuta, the small palm bob, is a butterfly belonging to the family Hesperiidae. It is found in the Indomalayan realm - south India, Sikkim to Burma, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Laos, Hainan, Vietnam and (S. m. flemingi Eliot, 1973) Malaya.[2][3][4][5][6][7]

Small palm bob
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Arthropoda
Class:
Insecta
Order:
Lepidoptera
Family:
Hesperiidae
Genus:
Suastus
Species:
S. minuta
Binomial name
Suastus minuta
(Moore, 1877) [1]
Synonyms

Suastus minutus (Moore, 1877)

Description
For a key to the terms used, see Glossary of entomology terms.

Male. Upperside dark blackish-brown, without any markings. Cilia of forewing brown, whitish at hinder angle, of hindwing white, with a few brown marks in it. Underside. Forewing paler brown, an obscure whitish mark at the upper end of the cell and another (less obscure) in the middle of the interno-median inter.space. Hindwing with the costal space broadly suffused with brown, the re.st of the wing; blue grey, sparsely covered with minute brown scales, thickest towards the outer margin, a small black spot at the end of the cell, a large one in the middle of the interno-median interspace, with a spot or two, more or less obsolescent, above it, a black spot at the anal angle, with one or two obscure spots on the margin in the interspaces above it. Antennae black, with whitish dots on the underside; palpi, head and body blackish brown above, grey on the underside, legs brown above, grey beneath.


Female like the male, but with comparatively longer forewing; on the underside, the whitish mark in the middle of the interno-median interspace is large, the grey portion of the hindwing is paler, the anal spot generally absent.

— Charles Swinhoe, Lepidoptera Indica. Vol. X[7]

References
  1. Moore, 1877 Descriptions of Ceylon Lepidoptera Ann. Mag. nat. Hist. (4) 20 (118) : 339-348
  2. R.K., Varshney; Smetacek, Peter (2015). A Synoptic Catalogue of the Butterflies of India. New Delhi: Butterfly Research Centre, Bhimtal & Indinov Publishing, New Delhi. pp. 50–51. doi:10.13140/RG.2.1.3966.2164. ISBN 978-81-929826-4-9.
  3. Seitz, A., 1912-1927. Die Indo-Australien Tagfalter Grossschmetterlinge Erde 9
  4. Corbet, A. S. & Pendlebury, H. M., 1956. The Butterflies of the Malay Peninsula Edn. 2. Edinburgh Oliver and Boyd xi+537 pp, 159 figs, 55 pls.
  5. E. Y., Watson (1891). Hesperiidae Indicae : being a reprint of descriptions of the Hesperiidae of India, Burma, and Ceylon. Madras: Vest and Company. p. 96.
  6. W. H., Evans (1949). A Catalogue of the Hesperiidae from Europe, Asia, and Australia in the British Museum. London: British Museum (Natural History). Department of Entomology. p. 297.
  7. One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a work now in the public domain: Swinhoe, Charles (1912–1913). Lepidoptera Indica. Vol. X. London: Lovell Reeve and Co. p. 151.


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