Aeromachus pygmaeus

Pygmy Grass-hopper
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Hesperiidae
Genus: Aeromachus
Species: A. pygmaeus
Binomial name
Aeromachus pygmaeus
(Fabricius, 1775)

The Pygmy Scrub-hopper or Pygmy Grass-hopper (Aeromachus pygmaeus) is a butterfly belonging to the family Hesperiidae.The species range is Nilgiris, Wynaad, Coorg, Kanara, Assam to Burma, Thailand.

The larvae feed on Ischaemum indicum.[1]

References

  1. Kalesh, S & S K Prakash (2007). "Additions ot the larval host plants of butterflies of the Western Ghats, Kerala, Southern India (Rhopalocera, Lepidoptera): Part 1". J. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc. 104 (2): 235–238.