Potanthus

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For the moths sometimes known as "darts", see Noctuidae.

Darts
Potanthus serina - Large Dart.jpg
The large dart (Potanthus serina) from Luzon, Philippines
Scientific classification e
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Hesperiidae
Subfamily: Hesperiinae
Tribe: Taractrocerini
Genus: Potanthus
Scudder, 1872
Species

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Synonyms[1]
  • Padraona Moore, 1882
  • Inessa de Nicéville, 1897

Potanthus is a large genus of skipper butterflies. They are commonly known as darts. They are found from South Asia to East Asia, and down to maritime Southeast Asia (though not extending towards New Guinea). It includes about 35 species, all of which look very similar to each other and are often only reliably identifiable through the examination of the male genitalia.[2]

Potanthus species are sun-loving diurnal flyers. They are usually found in primary and secondary forests, as well as in partly cleared areas, grasslands, and near small villages. Occasionally they may be found in swamps and mangrove forests.[2][1] The larvae feed on Bambusa (bamboo) and Dendrocalamus (both Gramineae). It includes the following species:

  • Evans, 1932 - Timor, Sumba, and
  • Eliot, 1960 - endemic to Malaysia
  • Potanthus confucius (Chinese dart or Confucian dart)
  • (Kollar, 1845) - Himalayas, Indo-China, Malaysia
  • Hsu, Tsukiyama & Chiba, 2005 - endemic to Taiwan
  • (Möschler, 1878) - Sundaland, Sulawesi, and the Philippines
  • Potanthus flavus (Murray, 1875) - Amur to Japan, China, the Philippines, and Thailand
  • (Evans, 1932) - Assam to the Malay Peninsula, Zhejiang
  • (Fruhstorfer, 1911) - Assam, Indochina, southern China, Sundaland, and Calamian, Palawan
  • (Mabille, 1883) - the Philippines, and Sulawesi
  • (de Nicéville, 1897) - endemic to Lombok
  • (Evans, 1934) - western China to the Malay Peninsula
  • (Evans, 1932) (Sikkim dart) - endemic to Tibet
  • Hsu, Li & Li, 1990 - endemic to Taiwan
  • (Edwards, 1866) - the Philippines, Java, Assam, Burma, Indochina, and Yunnan
  • Fujioka & Tsukiyama, 1975
  • (Evans, 1934) - Yunnan and Sichuan, China
  • Potanthus niobe (Evans, 1934) - endemic to the Philippines
  • Potanthus omaha (Edwards, 1863) - Burma to Indochina, Tawi-Tawi and Mindanao in the Philippines, Sulawesi and Sumbawa
  • Potanthus pallida (Evans, 1932) (pallid dart) - Sri Lanka, India, southern China, and southern Thailand
  • Potanthus palnia (Evans, 1914) (Palni dart) - the Palni Hills of southern India, Burma to Sumatra, southeastern Tibet and China
  • (Evans, 1934)
  • Johnson & Johnson, 1980
  • Potanthus pava (Fruhstorfer, 1911) (Pava dart) - Taiwan, India, Indochina, Malay Peninsula, Philippines, and Sulawesi
  • Potanthus pseudomaesa (Moore, 1882)(Indian dart) - lower Himalayas, India, Sri Lanka, Yunnan
  • (Elwes & Edwards, 1897) (branded dart) - Sikkim to the Malay Peninsula, Yunnan
  • Huang, 2003 - Yunnan
  • Potanthus serina Plötz, 1883) (large dart) - Burma to Indochina, the Philippines
  • (Evans, 1932)
  • Huang, 2001 - endemic to Tibet
  • Huang, 2002 - Tibet and Yunnan
  • (Mabille, 1878) - India, Indochina, Malaysia, and southern China
  • (Fruhstorfer, 1911) - Java, Lombok
  • (Evans, 1934) - Taiwan
  • Huang, 2002 - China

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References[]

  1. ^ a b Markku Savela. "Potanthus Scudder, 1872". Lepidoptera and some other life forms. Retrieved August 6, 2012.
  2. ^ a b Rienk de Jong & Colin Guy Treadaway (1993). "The Hesperiidae (Lepidoptera) of the Philippines". Zoologische Verhandelingen. 288: 3–125.

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