Dark Branded Swift | |
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Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Lepidoptera |
Family: | Hesperiidae |
Genus: | Pelopidas |
Species: | P. agna |
Binomial name | |
Pelopidas agna (Moore, 1865) |
Pelopidas agna, commonly known as the Dark Branded Swift, is a butterfly belonging to the family Hesperiidae.
"Upperside glossy olive-brown ; forewing with a series of six very small rather indistinct whitish semi-transparent spots curving from before the apex to the middle of the wing ; beneath these is a short oblique pale impressed streak, which is suffused with black on its anterior margin. Cilia pale brown. Underside pale brown ; spots on forewing as above but less defined ; hindwing with a curved discal series of white dots and a single dot near the base. Palpi and body beneath pale brownish-yellow."[1]