Arnetta atkinsoni

Arnetta atkinsoni
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Hesperiidae
Genus: Arnetta
Species: A. atkinsoni
Binomial name
Arnetta atkinsoni
(Moore, 1878)[1]
Synonyms
  • Isoteinon atkinsoni Moore, 1883[2]
  • Isoteinon khasianus Moore, 1878
  • Isoteinon subtestaceus Moore, 1878
  • Pedestes parnaca Fruhstorfer, 1910
  • Arnetta atkinsoni sinensis Lee, 1962

Arnetta atkinsoni is a species of Skipper butterfly found in Asia.

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.

— E. Y. Watson[3]

Found in Darjeeling. Wing expanse of 1.1 inches.

References

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  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


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