Celaenorrhinus pulomaya

Celaenorrhinus pulomaya,[1][2] the multi-spotted flat,[3] is a hesperiid butterfly which is found in Asia.

Multi-spotted flat
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Arthropoda
Class:
Insecta
Order:
Lepidoptera
Family:
Hesperiidae
Genus:
Celaenorrhinus
Species:
C. pulomaya
Binomial name
Celaenorrhinus pulomaya
(Moore, 1865)

Range

The butterfly occurs in the Himalayas and west China.[1]

Description

Male, dark olive-brown, yellowish-olive basally: forewing with four oblique discal semi-transparent white spots, the two upper large, one within and the other beneath the extremity of the cell, the third small and beneath the second, fourth also small and exterior to the juncture of the upper two obliquely, before the apex, are five small similar spots, the upper three being conjugated; near posterior margin are two small orange-yellow spots, the first being one-third from the base, the other one-third from posterior angle: hindwing with three rows of irregular-shaped well-defined bright orange spots; cilia of hindwing broad, alternate brown and orange-yellow. Underside as above. Top of head black, with a marginal yellow narrow line on each side. Palpi above black, tipped with yellow. Palpi, thorax, and legs beneath yellow. Antennae with yellow subapical streak.

— Edward Yerbury Watson[4]

See also

References
  1. Markku Savela's website on Lepidoptera Page on genus Celaenorrhinus., Subfamily Pyrginae, Family Hesperiidae
  2. Beccaloni, G.; Scoble, M.; Kitching, I.; Simonsen, T.; Robinson, G.; Pitkin, B.; Hine, A.; Lyal, C., eds. (2003). "Celaenorrhinus pulomaya". The Global Lepidoptera Names Index. Natural History Museum. Retrieved April 19, 2018.
  3. Evans, W.H. (1932). The Identification of Indian Butterflies (2nd ed.). Mumbai, India: Bombay Natural History Society. p. 325, ser no I11.8.
  4. Watson, E. Y. (1891) Hesperiidae Indicae: being a reprint of descriptions of the Hesperiidae of India, Burma, and Ceylon.

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