Hyarotis adrastus

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Tree Flitter
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Arthropoda Class: Insecta Order: Lepidoptera Family: Hesperiidae Genus: Hyarotis Species: H. adrastus
Binomial name
Hyarotis adrastus (Cramer, 1780)[1]

Hyarotis adrastus, commonly known as the Tree Flitter, is a butterfly belonging to the family Hesperiidae.

[edit] Description

Male and female, dark chocolate-brown. Upperside, forewing with three small conjugated subapical semi-transparent white spots, three similar and larger discal spots, and a fourth above them within the cell. Underside darker brown basally, paler exteriorly ; forewing with spots as above, bordered externally by a suffused dark brown streak ; hindwing with a double series of white dark brown-outer-bordered lunules crossing the middle of the wing, beyond which is a submarginal series of suffused dark brown spots. Palpi, thorax, and abdomen beneath pale greyishbrown. Legs brown. Cilia yellowish- white, spotted with pale brown.

—E. Y. Watson^[2]

[edit] Distribution

Bengal. (Moore in P. Z. S.) Recorded from Ceylon (Hutchison, Wade, Mackwood); Andamans, Cachar (Wood-Mason and de Niceville); Sikkim (de Niceville; Elwes) ; Calcutta (de Niceville) ; Kumaon (Doherty); Kangra, N.-W. Himalayas (Moore) Orissa (Taylor); Nilgiris (Hampson).

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