Arrhenes marnas

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Arrhenes marnas
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Hesperiidae
Genus: Arrhenes
Species:
A. marnas
Binomial name
Arrhenes marnas
(Felder, 1860)
Synonyms
  • Arrhenes dipavansa(Fruhstorfer, 1911)
  • Arrhenes simillima(Rothschild, 1916)
  • Pamphila marnasFelder, 1860
  • Ocybadistes affinisWaterhouse & Lyell, 1912

Arrhenes marnas, the affinis skipper or swamp darter, is a butterfly of the family Hesperiidae. The species was described by Felder in 1860. It is found from Queensland to Papua.

The larvae feed on Leesia hexandra .

Subspecies


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