Aeromachus kali

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

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

[edit] 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.

E. Y. Watson[1]

Wing expanse of 1.15 inches.

Found in Sikkim.

[edit] References

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