Aeromachus kali

Aeromachus kali
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Hesperiidae
Genus: Aeromachus
Species: A. kali
Binomial name
Aeromachus kali
de Nicéville, 1885

Aeromachus kali is a species of skipper butterfly found in Asia (Sikkim, Assam, Burma, Laos).

Description

Male upperside deep purplish black, the cilia cinereous. Underside slightly paler. Forewing with a discal outwardly angled series of eight pale violet-white dots, an even somewhat larger marginal lunular series. Hindwing with a discal irregular series of pale violet-white spots, within which are some obscure pale markings; a marginal series as in the forewing. Cilia cinereous, marked with dark brown at the ends of

the nervules.

Wing expanse of 1.15 inches (29 mm).

It is found in Sikkim, India.

References

  1. Watson, E. Y. 1891. Hesperiidae Indicae. Vest and co. Madras


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