Description

• Common Name : Small Green Awlet
• Scientific Name : Bibasis amara (Moore)
• Family : HESPERIIDAE
• Wingspan : 40-48mm
• Colour : Both sexes with greenish gloss on brown UP. Dark brown body with greyish bands on abdomen.
• Habit : Status - Rare; Recorded from Terai Forests of Himalayan foothills (Buxa Tiger Reserve at an elevation of 250m on a forest path approaching Santlabari). Seen on wing in May.
• Larval Host Plants : Data deficient
• Location : Himalayan West Bengal

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