Sabera dobboe

(Sabera dobboe)

Description

Sabera dobboe, the yellow-streaked swift or Miskin's swift, is a butterfly of the family Hesperiidae. It is found in Australia in Queensland, Papua New Guinea and Indonesia in the Aru Islands, Papua and the Kei Islands. The wingspan is about 30 mm. The larvae feed on Cordyline terminalis, Cordyline australis, Cordyline stricta and Cordyline cannifolia. It lives in a tubular shelter made in a curled leaf of the host plant.

Taxonomic tree:

Domain:
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum:
Class: Insecta
Order:Lepidoptera
Family:Hesperiidae
Genus:Sabera
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