Capila penicillatum

Fringed dawnfly
From top: male, female and male underside
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Hesperiidae
Genus:	Capila
Species:	C. penicillatum
Binomial name
Capila penicillatum (de Nicéville, 1893)[1]

Capila penicillatum, commonly known as the fringed dawnfly,[2][3] is a species of hesperid butterfly found in India and Southeast Asia.

Range

The butterfly occurs in India from Meghalaya (Khasi hills) eastwards to Canton, northern Vietnam and Hainan.[3][4]

The type locality is the Khasi Hills.[1]

Status

It is very rare.[4]

Cited references

1. Beccaloni, G.; Scoble, M.; Kitching, I.; Simonsen, T.; Robinson, G.; Pitkin, B.; Hine, A.; Lyal, C., eds. (2003). "​Capila penicillatum​". The Global Lepidoptera Names Index. Natural History Museum. Retrieved April 19, 2018.
2. TOL web page on genus Capila
3. Markku Savela's Website on Lepidoptera Page on genus Capila.
4. Evans, W.H. (1932). The Identification of Indian Butterflies (2nd ed.). Mumbai, India: Bombay Natural History Society. p. 323, ser no I 8.3.

References

Print

• Evans, W.H. (1932). The Identification of Indian Butterflies (2nd ed.). Mumbai, India: Bombay Natural History Society.
• Watson, E. Y. (1891) Hesperiidae indicae: being a reprint of descriptions of the Hesperiidae of India, Burma, and Ceylon.. Vest and Co. Madras.

Online

• Beccaloni, George; Scoble, Malcolm; Kitching, Ian; Simonsen, Thomas; Robinson, Gaden; Pitkin, Brian; Hine, Adrian; Lyal, Chris. "The Global Lepidoptera Names Index (LepIndex)". Natural History Museum, London. Retrieved 2016-10-15.
• Brower, Andrew V. Z. (2007). Capila Moore 1866. Version 4 March 2007 (under construction). http://tolweb.org/Capila/95329/2007.03.04 in The Tree of Life Web Project, http://tolweb.org/
• "Markku Savela's website on Lepidoptera".