Aeromachus nanus

Aeromachus nanus
"Ampittia nanus" in Adalbert Seitz's Fauna Palaearctica page 86, line "g"
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Hesperiidae
Genus:	Aeromachus
Species:	A. nanus
Binomial name
Aeromachus nanus (Leech, 1890)
Synonyms
Cyclopides nanusLeech, 1890 Ampittia nanus(Leech, 1890)

Aeromachus nanus is a species of butterfly in the family Hesperiidae. It was described by John Henry Leech in 1890. ^[1] The later combination of Ampittia nanus is in Evans, 1949, then else as Aeromachus nanus is in Huanget al. 2019. The species is found in China.

Description

One of the two marginal rows of spots of the forewing in cellules 5, 6 and 7, or 6, 7 and 8, the other in cellule 2 and 3: no light spot in cellule 4. A spot in the cell near the upper angle ash colour.

References

1. Ampittia nanus (Leech, 1890), 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.