Sabera dobboe (Plötz, 1885) is a animal in the Hesperiidae family, order Lepidoptera, kingdom Animalia. Not known to be toxic.

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Sabera dobboe (Plötz, 1885)

Sabera dobboe (Plötz, 1885)

Sabera dobboe is a 30 mm wingspan hesperiid butterfly found in parts of Australia, New Guinea and Indonesia.

Family
Genus
Sabera
Order
Lepidoptera
Class
Insecta

About Sabera dobboe (Plötz, 1885)

Sabera dobboe, commonly known as the yellow-streaked swift or Miskin's swift, is a butterfly species belonging to the family Hesperiidae. This species is distributed across Australia (specifically Queensland), Papua New Guinea, and Indonesia, where it occurs in the Aru Islands, Papua, and the Kei Islands. Adults have an approximate wingspan of 30 mm. The larvae of Sabera dobboe feed on four species in the genus Cordyline: Cordyline terminalis, Cordyline australis, Cordyline stricta, and Cordyline cannifolia.

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Taxonomy

Animalia Arthropoda Insecta Lepidoptera Hesperiidae Sabera

More from Hesperiidae

Sources: GBIF, iNaturalist, Wikipedia, NCBI Taxonomy · Disclaimer

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