Blank swift

Description

Caltoris kumara, the blank swift, is a butterfly belonging to the family Hesperiidae. 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. It is found in the India and Sri Lanka. In India, a range extension of this species to the western Himalaya was recorded in 2018. Caltoris is a genus of skipper butterflies. Like several related genera, they are called "swifts".It is found in the Indomalayan realm and the Australasian realm.