Aeromachus kali

Aeromachus kali
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 (Sikkim, Assam, Burma, Laos).

Description

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.

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