| Dark yellow-banded flat | |
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| At Fraser's Hill, Malaysia | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Hesperiidae |
| Genus: | Aurivittia |
| Species: | A. aurivittata |
| Binomial name | |
| Aurivittia aurivittata (Moore, [1879]) | |
| Synonyms | |
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Aurivittia aurivittata, [1] the dark yellow-banded flat, [2] is a species of hesperiid butterfly which is found in South Asia and Southeast Asia. [3]
The butterfly occurs in India, Bhutan, Myanmar, Thailand, Laos, the Malay Peninsula, Borneo and southern Yunnan. [2] [4] In India, the butterfly ranges across the Himalayas to Sikkim eastwards to southern Myanmar. [2] [4]
Evans: Assam to south Myanmar, south Mergui, Malaya, Sumatra, Kota Kina Balu, Borneo Savela:
In 1932, William Harry Evans reported that A. aurivittata was not rare in India and north Myanmar, but was rare elsewhere. [4]