Aeromachus kali

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Aeromachus kali
Close wing puddling position of Aeromachus kali (de Niceville, 1885) - Blue-spotted Scrub Hopper.jpg
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Hesperiidae
Genus: Aeromachus
Species:
A. kali
Binomial name
Aeromachus kali

Aeromachus kali is a species of skipper butterfly found in Asia (Sikkim, Assam, Burma, Laos) and Yunnan.

Description

Male upperside deep purplish black, the cilia cinereous. Underside slightly paler. Forewing with a discal outwardly angled series of eight pale violet-white dots, an even somewhat larger marginal lunular series. Hindwing with a discal irregular series of pale violet-white spots, within which are some obscure pale markings; a marginal series as in the forewing. Cilia cinereous, marked with dark brown at the ends of the nervules.

Edward Yerbury Watson [1]

Wing expanse of 1.15 inches (29 mm).

It is found in Sikkim, India.

References

  1. Watson, E. Y. 1891. Hesperiidae Indicae. Vest and co. Madras