| Large Branded Swift | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Hesperiidae |
| Genus: | Pelopidas |
| Species: | P. subochracea |
| Binomial name | |
| Pelopidas subochracea (Moore, 1878) |
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Pelopidas subochracea, commonly known as the Large Branded Swift, is a butterfly belonging to the family Hesperiidae.
"Upperside glossy luteous olive-brown; cilia yellowish-cinereous. Male. Forewing with two pale semi-diaphanous spots at end of the cell, three contiguous spots obliquely before the apex, three upper discal spots, below which is a narrow white oblique streak or brand ; hindwing with three small yellow upper discal spots, the two lowest small. Female. Forewing with a lower or fourth discal spot, and a small dot below the third spot ; the spots angled outward : hindwing as in male. Underside greenish-ochreous, brown on hind border of forewing and anal lobe ; marginal line brown and prominent : forewing with the lower spot diffused and white : hindwing with the upper discal white spot large and quadrate, four spots below in a slightly linear position, the upper spot indistinct ; a white spot also at upper end of cell, and a smaller indistinct spot above it."[1]