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Sabera dobboe

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Sabera dobboe
Sabera dobboe autoleon
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Hesperiidae
Genus: Sabera
Species:
S. dobboe
Binomial name
Sabera dobboe
(Plötz, 1883)
Synonyms
  • Pamphila autoleon Miskin, 1889

Sabera dobboe, the yellow-streaked swift or Miskin's swift, is a butterfly of the family Hesperiidae. It is found in Australia in Queensland, Papua New Guinea and Indonesia in the Aru Islands, Papua and the Kei Islands.

The wingspan is about 30 mm.

The larvae feed on Cordyline terminalis, Cordyline australis, Cordyline stricta and Cordyline cannifolia.

Subspecies

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  • Sabera dobboe dobboe (Papua New Guinea)
  • Sabera dobboe autoleon (Miskin, 1889) - Miskin's swift (northern Gulf and north-eastern coast of Queensland)
  • Sabera dobboe hanova Evans, 1949 (northern New Britain and New Ireland on Papua New Guinea)
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