Pale awlet
The pale awlet is a chunky skipper butterfly from India and Southeast Asia. The male is pale brown with yellowish stripes, and the female is a glossy dark bronze-green that turns blue at the wing tips. It likes to fly at dawn and dusk, when the light is soft.
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Fun facts
It is crepuscular, which means it is busy in the twilight of morning and evening.
Underneath, its wings have greyish-green stripes along the veins.
It is rare in South India but not rare in the Himalayas.
The first one that scientists described came from Darjeeling in India.
Its body underneath is orange-yellow, and its tummy has yellowish bands.
Most asked questions about Pale awlet
?How big is the pale awlet?
Its wings measure about 50 to 55 millimetres from tip to tip.
?When does the pale awlet fly?
Mostly at dawn and dusk.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Burara gomata
- Named by
- Moore, 1865
- Group
- Butterflies
- Family
- Hesperiidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Lepidoptera > Hesperiidae
- Lives on
- Asia
- Also known as
- Pale green awlet
Where the facts come from
- Burara gomata (Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0): what it looks like, where it lives, what it eats, sizes and fun facts, retold in simple words.
- Picture by Firos AK. CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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