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 Nicéville, 1885 |
Aeromachus kali is a species of Skipper butterfly found in Asia.
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.