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 Niceville, 1885

Aeromachus jhora is a species of Skipper butterfly found in Asia.

[edit] 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.

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