Arnetta atkinsoni

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Arnetta atkinsoni
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Hesperiidae
Genus: Arnetta
Species:
A. atkinsoni
Binomial name
Arnetta atkinsoni
(Moore, 1878) [1]
Synonyms
  • Isoteinon atkinsoniMoore, 1883 [2]
  • Isoteinon khasianusMoore, 1878
  • Isoteinon subtestaceusMoore, 1878
  • Pedestes parnacaFruhstorfer, 1910
  • Arnetta atkinsoni sinensisLee, 1962

Arnetta atkinsoni is a species of skipper butterfly found in South Asia (Sikkim to Assam, Burma, Thailand, Laos, Vietnam, Yunnan).

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Description

Upperside dark glossy olive-brown; cilia brownish-cinereous with a brown inner line and indistinct bars: forewing with a small yellow semi-diaphanous spot at end of the cell, three smaller contiguous spots obliquely before the apex, and two contiguous spots obliquely on the disc. Underside speckled with ochreous-green: forewing marked as above; hindwing with a median discal curved series of eight small prominent white spots, and a spot at end of the cell.

It is found in Darjeeling, India. Wing expanse of 1.1 inches (28 mm).

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References

  1. Arnetta, funet.fi
  2. Moore, Frederic (1878) P. Z. S.:693
  3. Watson, E. Y. 1891. Hesperiidae Indicae: being a reprint of descriptions of the Hesperiidae of India, Burma, and Ceylon. Vest and co. Madras