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.
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| Species: | S. dobboe
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| Sabera dobboe (Plötz, 1883)
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The wingspan is about 30 mm.
The larvae feed on Cordyline terminalis, Cordyline australis, Cordyline stricta and Cordyline cannifolia. It lives in a tubular shelter made in a curled leaf of the host plant.
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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