Aeromachus jhora
Aeromachus jhora is a species of skipper butterfly found in Asia (Vietnam and Assam to Malaya)
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| Worn museum specimen from Malaya | |
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| Species: | A. jhora |
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| Aeromachus jhora de Nicéville, 1885 | |
Description
Upperside dark brown; cilia whitish marked with brown at the end of the nervules. Forewing with a discal curved series of about six pale dots. Hindwing unmarked. Underside dark brown, the costa and the apex of the forewing and the entire hindwing greenish-ochreous, Forewing with the discal series of spots as above, and an indistinct marginal lunular series. Hindwing with a very irregular discal series of spots and an obscure marginal series.
Wing expanse of 0.95 to 1.05 inches (24 to 27 mm).
References
- Watson, E. Y. 1891. Hesperiidae Indicae. Vest and co. Madras
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