Burara anadi, the plain orange awlet,Markku Savela's website on Lepidoptera Page on genus Bibasis. is a species of hesperid butterfly found in India and Southeast Asia. The butterfly has been reassigned by Vane-Wright and de Jong (2003) to the genus Burara and is considered by them Burara anadi.Vane-Wright and de Jong (2003) (see TOL web pages on genus Bibasis and genus Burara in the Tree of Life Web Project) state that Bibasis contains just three diurnal species, the crepuscular remainder having been removed to Burara. The species now shifted to Burara are morphologically and behaviorally distinct from Bibasis, within which many authors have formerly included them. Some treatments place them in the genus Bibasis.
Range The plain orange awlet ranges from India, (Mussoorie, Sikkim eastwards through Assam), to the Karen Hills in Myanmar, northern Thailand and Laos.
Status The species is considered rare.
Description
The butterfly has a wingspan of 50 to 55 mm.
Edward Yerbury Watson (1891) gives a detailed description:Watson, E. Y. (1891) Hesperiidae indicae.
Habits This butterfly is crepuscular.
References
Further reading
Watson, E. Y. (1891) Hesperiidae indicae. Vest and Co. Madras.
External links
Brower, Andrew V. Z. and Warren, Andrew, (2007). Coeliadinae Evans 1937. Version 21 February 2007 (temporary). http://tolweb.org/Coeliadinae/12150/2007.02.21 in The Tree of Life Web Project, http://tolweb.org/