Aeromachus kali
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| Species: | A. kali
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| Aeromachus kali de Nicéville, 1885
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Aeromachus kali is a species of skipper butterfly found in Asia (Sikkim, Assam, Burma, Laos) and Yunnan.
Description[edit]
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.
Wing expanse of 1.15 inches (29 mm).
It is found in Sikkim, India.
References[edit]
- ^ Watson, E. Y. 1891. Hesperiidae Indicae. Vest and co. Madras
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