Aeromachus jhora
| Aeromachus jhora | |
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| Museum specimen. Malaya.Worn. | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Hesperiidae |
| Genus: | Aeromachus |
| Species: | A. jhora |
| Binomial name | |
| Aeromachus jhora de Nicéville, 1885 | |
Aeromachus jhora is a species of Skipper butterfly found in Asia (Vietnam and Assam to Malaya)
Description
Upperside dark brown ; cilia whitish marked with brown at the end of the nervules. Forewing with a discal curved series of about six pale dots. Hindwing unmarked. Underside dark brown, the costa and the apex of the forewing and the entire hindwing greenish-ochreous, Forewing with the discal series of spots as above, and an indistinct marginal lunular series. Hindwing with a very irregular discal series of spots and an obscure marginal series.— E. Y. Watson[1]
Wing expanse of 0.95 to 1.05 inches.
References
- ↑ Watson, E. Y. 1891. Hesperiidae Indicae. Vest and co. Madras
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