| Arnetta atkinsoni | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Hesperiidae |
| Genus: | Arnetta |
| Species: | A. atkinsoni |
| Binomial name | |
| Arnetta atkinsoni (Moore, 1878) |
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| Synonyms | |
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Isoteinon atkinsoni Moore, 1883[1] |
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Arnetta atkinsoni is a species of Skipper butterfly found in Asia.
Upperside dark glossy olive-brown ; cilia brownish-cinereous with a brown inner line and indistinct bars : forewing with a small yellow semi-diaphanous spot at end of the cell, three smaller contiguous spots obliquely before the apex, and two contiguous spots obliquely on the disc. Underside speckled with ochreous-green : forewing marked as above ; hindwing with a median discal curved series of eight small prominent white spots, and a spot at end of the cell.—E. Y. Watson[2]
Found in Darjeeling. Wing expanse of 1.1 inches.