Sabera dobboe
(Redirected from Miskin's swift)
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| Sabera dobboe autoleon | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Hesperiidae |
| Genus: | Sabera |
| Species: | S. dobboe
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| Binomial name | |
| Sabera dobboe (Plötz, 1883)
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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
[edit]- 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)
External links
[edit]- The Life History of Sabera fuliginosa fuliginosa (Miskin) (Lepidoptera: Hesperiidae) and additional hostplants for the other members of the genus in Northern Queensland
- Australian Insects
- Australian Faunal Directory
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