Caltoris kumara

Caltoris kumara, the blank swift,^[1] is a butterfly belonging to the family Hesperiidae.^[2][3]

Blank swift
C.k. kumara Chinnar Wildlife Sanctuary, Kerala, India
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Hesperiidae
Genus:	Caltoris
Species:	C. kumara
Binomial name
Caltoris kumara (Moore, 1878)
Synonyms
Parnara kumara Moore, 1878

Description

Female. Upperside dark olive brown; forewing with a transverse discal series of seven yellowish semi-diaphanous spots from before the apex; cilia pale brownish-yellow. Underside deep ochreous-brown; forewing marked as above, the lowest spot being yellow : hindwing with a single discal indistinct yellow spot between the two lower median branches, Palpi and body brown; tarsi ochreous. This species is also found in Ceylon, the male differing from the female above and beneath in the first upper and lower discal spots being absent.

— Edward Yerbury Watson^[4]

It is found in the India and Sri Lanka.^[1] In India, a range extension of this species to the western Himalaya was recorded in 2018.^[5]

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