Erionota thrax

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Palm Redeye
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Arthropoda Class: Insecta Order: Lepidoptera Family: Hesperiidae Subfamily: Hesperiinae Genus: Erionota Species: E. thrax
Binomial name
Erionota thrax (Linnaeus , 1767)

Erionota thrax, commonly known as the Palm Redeye or the Banana Skipper, is a butterfly belonging to the family Hesperiidae.

[edit] Description

Male and female. Wings above chocolate-brown ; anterior wings with three discal pale ochraceous spots, situate one crossing cell, another beneath cell and between the two lower median nervules, and the third and smallest between the first and second median nervules ; posterior wings with the fringe greyish-ochraceous. Wings beneath paler than above ; posterior wings with a discal, rounded, macular, darker fascia. Body and legs more or less concolorous with wings.

—E. Y. Watson^[1]

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