Aeromachus dalailama

Aeromachus dalailama
"Ampittia dalailama" in Adalbert Seitz's Fauna Palaearctica, page 87 line "e"
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Hesperiidae
Genus:	Ampittia
Species:	A. dalailama
Binomial name
Ampittia dalailama (Mabille, 1876) [1]
Synonyms
Cyclopides dalailamaMabille, 1876 Ampittia dalailama(Mabille, 1876) Taractrocera lydeLeech, 1891

Aeromachus dalailama is a species of butterfly in the family Hesperiidae. It was described by Paul Mabille in 1876. It is found in Tibet and western China.

Description

Hindwing beneath brown, densely dusted with yellow scales, with three yellow spots near the base and a postmedian as well as a subterminal row of yellow dots; the postmedian spots of cellules 3 and 4 are placed near the centre of these cellules and cover their whole breadth.

Subspecies

• Aeromachus dalailama dalailama(Mabille, 1876) China
• Aeromachus dalailama jesta(Evans, 1939) Tibet, China

References

1. Ampittia, funet.fi

Further reading

• Huang, Z.F.et al. 2019. A multilocus phylogenetic framework of the tribe Aeromachini (Lepidoptera: Hesperiidae: Hesperiinae), with implications for taxonomy and biogeography. Systematic Entomology, 44: 163–178.