Capila penicillatum

Fringed dawnfly
	From top: male, female and male underside
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Hesperiidae
Genus:	Capila
Species:	C. penicillatum
Binomial name
	Capila penicillatum; (de Nicéville, 1893)

Capila penicillatum, commonly known as the fringed dawnfly,^[2]^[3] is a species of hesperid butterfly found in India and Southeast Asia.

Range

The butterfly occurs in India from Meghalaya (Khasi hills) eastwards to Canton, northern Vietnam and Hainan.^[3]^[4]

The type locality is the Khasi Hills.^[1]

It is very rare.^[4]

^ ^a ^b Beccaloni, G.; Scoble, M.; Kitching, I.; Simonsen, T.; Robinson, G.; Pitkin, B.; Hine, A.; Lyal, C., eds. (2003). "Capila penicillatum". The Global Lepidoptera Names Index. Natural History Museum. Retrieved April 19, 2018.
^ TOL web page on genus Capila
^ ^a ^b Markku Savela's Website on Lepidoptera Page on genus Capila.
^ ^a ^b Evans, W.H. (1932). The Identification of Indian Butterflies (2nd ed.). Mumbai, India: Bombay Natural History Society. p. 323, ser no I 8.3.

Print

Evans, W.H. (1932). The Identification of Indian Butterflies (2nd ed.). Mumbai, India: Bombay Natural History Society.
Watson, E. Y. (1891) Hesperiidae indicae: being a reprint of descriptions of the Hesperiidae of India, Burma, and Ceylon.. Vest and Co. Madras.

Online

Beccaloni, George; Scoble, Malcolm; Kitching, Ian; Simonsen, Thomas; Robinson, Gaden; Pitkin, Brian; Hine, Adrian; Lyal, Chris. "The Global Lepidoptera Names Index (LepIndex)". Natural History Museum, London. Retrieved 2016-10-15.
Brower, Andrew V. Z. (2007). Capila Moore 1866. Version 4 March 2007 (under construction). http://tolweb.org/Capila/95329/2007.03.04 in The Tree of Life Web Project, http://tolweb.org/
"Markku Savela's website on Lepidoptera".

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