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{{Short description|Species of butterfly}}
{{Taxobox | name = Yellow-Base/Golden Tree Flitter
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| name = Golden flitter
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| taxon = Quedara basiflava
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| authority = ([[Lionel de Nicéville|de Nicéville]], 1888)
| regnum = [[Animal]]ia
| phylum = [[Arthropod]]a
| classis = [[Insect]]a
| ordo = [[Lepidoptera]]
| familia = [[Hesperiidae]]
| subfamilia = [[Hesperiinae]]
| genus = ''[[Quedara]]''
| species = '''''Q. basiflava'''''
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| binomial = ''Quedara basiflava''
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| binomial_authority = ([[Lionel de Nicéville|de Nicéville]], [[1888]])
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'''''Quedara basiflava''''', the '''yellow-base flitter''' <ref name="IFB Que_bas">Kunte, K. and K. Saji. 2013. Quedara basiflava de Nicéville, 1888 – Yellow-base Flitter. In K. Kunte, S. Kalesh & U. Kodandaramaiah (eds.). Butterflies of India, v. 1.06. Indian Foundation for Butterflies. [http://ifoundbutterflies.org/310-quedara/quedara-basiflava]</ref> or '''golden flitter''',<ref name=Smetacek/> is a [[butterfly]] belonging to the family [[Hesperiidae]] and is endemic to India's [[Western Ghats]].<ref name=Smetacek>{{Cite book|title=A Synoptic Catalogue of the Butterflies of India|last1=R.K.|first1=Varshney|last2=Smetacek|first2=Peter|publisher=Butterfly Research Centre, Bhimtal & Indinov Publishing, New Delhi|year=2015|isbn=978-81-929826-4-9|location=New Delhi|pages=51–52|doi=10.13140/RG.2.1.3966.2164}}</ref><ref name="Savela Actinor">Markku Savela's website on Lepidoptera [http://www.nic.funet.fi/pub/sci/bio/life/insecta/lepidoptera/ditrysia/hesperioidea/hesperiidae/hesperiinae/quedara/index.html Page on genus ''Quedara''.]</ref><ref name="watson">{{Cite book|url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/64080#page/144/mode/1up|title=Hesperiidae Indicae : being a reprint of descriptions of the Hesperiidae of India, Burma, and Ceylon|last=E. Y.|first=Watson|authorlink=Edward Yerbury Watson|publisher=Vest and Company|year=1891|isbn=|location=Madras|pages=130}}</ref><ref name=Evans>{{Cite book|url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/187283#page/328/mode/1up|title=A Catalogue of the Hesperiidae from Europe, Asia, and Australia in the British Museum|last=W. H.|first=Evans|authorlink=William Harry Evans |publisher=British Museum (Natural History). Department of Entomology|year=1949|isbn=|location=London|pages=304}}</ref><ref name=SwinhoeIndica>{{Source-attribution|sentence=yes|{{Cite book|url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/103495#page/217/mode/1up|title=Lepidoptera Indica. Vol. X |last=Swinhoe|first=Charles|authorlink=Charles Swinhoe|publisher=Lovell Reeve and Co.|year=1912–1913|volume=10 |isbn=|location=London|pages=203}}}}</ref>
'''''Quedara basiflava''''', commonly known as the '''Yellow-Base/Golden Tree Flitter''', is a [[butterfly]] belonging to the family [[Hesperiidae]].
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==Food plants==
The larvae feed on ''[[Calamus pseudotenuis]]'', ''[[Calamus rotang]]'' and ''[[Calamus thwaitesii]]''.<ref>Kunte, K. 2006. Additions to the known élarval host plants of Indian butterflies. J. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc. 103(1):119-121</ref>
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==References==
{{reflist}}


==Description==
{{Entomology glossary hatnote}}
{{Quote|Male. Upperside dark glossy blackish-brown, almost black. Forewing with a short post-medial semi-hyaline, white, fairly broad band, composed of two semi-quadrate, rather long, conjugated spots, filling up the end of the cell, the lower spot the larger, a still larger semi-quadrate spot below extending to the first median [[nervule]], only divided from the upper spots by the median vein, its outer end extending somewhat outwards. Hindwing without markings. Cilia of both wings brown. Underside almost as dark as the upperside. Forewing with markings similar. Hindwing with a chrome-yellow basal patch, varying in extent in different examples, in the type specimen the basal third of the wing is so coloured, in some examples from the Nilgiris the chrome-yellow basal patch is much more limited. Antennae black, without markings; palpi, head and body above and the legs concolorous with the wings, palpi and thorax below greyish, abdomen cinereous.


Female like the male, the spots on the forewing a little larger.|author=[[Charles Swinhoe]]|source=[[Lepidoptera Indica]]. Vol. X<ref name=SwinhoeIndica/>}}

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==Food plants==
The larvae feed on ''[[Calamus hookerianus]]'', ''[[Calamus pseudofeanus]]'', ''[[Calamus rotang]]'' and ''[[Calamus thwaitesii]]''.<ref>{{Cite journal|date=2018-04-10|title=Larval host plants of the buterfies of the Western Ghats, India|author1=Ravikanthachari Nitin|author2= V.C. Balakrishnan|author3= Paresh V. Churi|author4= S. Kalesh|author5= Satya Prakash|author6= Krushnamegh Kunte|journal=Journal of Threatened Taxa|volume=10|issue=4|pages=11502|doi=10.11609/jott.3104.10.4.11495-11550|doi-access=free}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |author=K. Kunte |year=2006 |title=Additions to the known larval host plants of Indian butterflies |journal=[[Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society]] |volume=103 |issue=1 |pages=119–121}}</ref>

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==References==
{{Reflist}}


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[[Category:Hesperiinae]]
[[Category:Butterflies described in 1888]]
[[Category:Butterflies of Asia]]
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[[vi:Quedara basiflava]]

Latest revision as of 06:58, 13 October 2021

Golden flitter
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Hesperiidae
Genus: Quedara
Species:
Q. basiflava
Binomial name
Quedara basiflava

Quedara basiflava, the yellow-base flitter [1] or golden flitter,[2] is a butterfly belonging to the family Hesperiidae and is endemic to India's Western Ghats.[2][3][4][5][6]

Description

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

Male. Upperside dark glossy blackish-brown, almost black. Forewing with a short post-medial semi-hyaline, white, fairly broad band, composed of two semi-quadrate, rather long, conjugated spots, filling up the end of the cell, the lower spot the larger, a still larger semi-quadrate spot below extending to the first median nervule, only divided from the upper spots by the median vein, its outer end extending somewhat outwards. Hindwing without markings. Cilia of both wings brown. Underside almost as dark as the upperside. Forewing with markings similar. Hindwing with a chrome-yellow basal patch, varying in extent in different examples, in the type specimen the basal third of the wing is so coloured, in some examples from the Nilgiris the chrome-yellow basal patch is much more limited. Antennae black, without markings; palpi, head and body above and the legs concolorous with the wings, palpi and thorax below greyish, abdomen cinereous. Female like the male, the spots on the forewing a little larger.

— Charles Swinhoe, Lepidoptera Indica. Vol. X[6]

Food plants

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The larvae feed on Calamus hookerianus, Calamus pseudofeanus, Calamus rotang and Calamus thwaitesii.[7][8]

References

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  1. ^ Kunte, K. and K. Saji. 2013. Quedara basiflava de Nicéville, 1888 – Yellow-base Flitter. In K. Kunte, S. Kalesh & U. Kodandaramaiah (eds.). Butterflies of India, v. 1.06. Indian Foundation for Butterflies. [1]
  2. ^ a b 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. 51–52. doi:10.13140/RG.2.1.3966.2164. ISBN 978-81-929826-4-9.
  3. ^ Markku Savela's website on Lepidoptera Page on genus Quedara.
  4. ^ E. Y., Watson (1891). Hesperiidae Indicae : being a reprint of descriptions of the Hesperiidae of India, Burma, and Ceylon. Madras: Vest and Company. p. 130.
  5. ^ 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. 304.
  6. ^ a b Public Domain One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain: Swinhoe, Charles (1912–1913). Lepidoptera Indica. Vol. X. Vol. 10. London: Lovell Reeve and Co. p. 203.
  7. ^ Ravikanthachari Nitin; V.C. Balakrishnan; Paresh V. Churi; S. Kalesh; Satya Prakash; Krushnamegh Kunte (2018-04-10). "Larval host plants of the buterfies of the Western Ghats, India". Journal of Threatened Taxa. 10 (4): 11502. doi:10.11609/jott.3104.10.4.11495-11550.
  8. ^ K. Kunte (2006). "Additions to the known larval host plants of Indian butterflies". Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society. 103 (1): 119–121.


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