Aeromachus jhora

Aeromachus jhora is a species of skipper butterfly found in Asia (Vietnam and Assam to Malaya)

Aeromachus jhora
Worn museum specimen from Malaya
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A. jhora
Binomial name
Aeromachus jhora

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

  1. Watson, E. Y. 1891. Hesperiidae Indicae. Vest and co. Madras


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