Hasora hurama (Butler, 1870)
Broad-banded Awl
 (previously known as Hesperia hurama)
COELIADINAE,   HESPERIIDAE,   HESPERIOIDEA
  
Don Herbison-Evans,
(donherbisonevans@yahoo.com)
and
Stella Crossley


(Photo: courtesy of Mark Hopkinson, Cairns, Queensland)

The Caterpillars of this species may basically be green or brown. They have four white lines along the back, and a large black spot on the side of each segment, and they have some white hairs. The head and prothorax are black.


(Photo: courtesy of Mark Hopkinson, Cairns, Queensland)

They live in a shelter made by joining leaves with silk. The caterpillars feed on:

  • Bagin ( Derris trifoliata, FABACEAE ).


    (Photo: courtesy of Mark Korner, Cairns, Queensland)

    They pupate in their larval shelter. The pupa is white with black spiracles, and is secured with silk threads in its larval shelter. The pupa has a length of about 2 cms.


    (Photo: courtesy of Mark Hopkinson, Cairns, Queensland)

    The adults are dark brown, with a broad diagonal white stripe across the underside of each hind wing.


    (Specimen: courtesy of the Macleay Museum, University of Sydney)

    The males have a black line on the rear of each forewing. The butterflies have a wing span of about 5 cms.


    underside
    (Specimen: courtesy of the Macleay Museum, University of Sydney)

    This species is found in the south-west Pacific in

  • Indonesia, and
  • The Solomons,

    as well as the tropical north of Australia, including:

  • Northern Territory, and
  • Queensland.

    Further reading :

    Michael F. Braby,
    Butterflies of Australia, CSIRO Publishing, Melbourne 2000, vol. 1, pp 80-81.

    Arthur G. Butler,
    Descriptions of some new diurnal Lepidoptera, chiefly Hesperiidae,
    Transactions of the Entomological Society of London,
    1870, Part 4, p. 498, No. 2.

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    (updated 28 July 2001, 7 January 2024)