Polytremis eltola
Polytremis eltola | |
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In Nepal | |
Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Lepidoptera |
Family: | Hesperiidae |
Genus: | Polytremis |
Species: | P. eltola
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Binomial name | |
Polytremis eltola | |
Synonyms | |
Parnara eltola |
Polytremis eltola, the yellow spot swift, is a species of skipper butterfly found in the Indomalayan realm.
Description[]
Upperside dark brown. Anterior wing with eight transparent white spots, and a spot of yellow near the inner margin: the three largest spots across the middle, two outside of these, and three near the apex. Posterior wing with three transparent spots. Underside as above, except that it is rufous-brown.
Found in Darjeeling, Kumaon (Doherty); Cachar (Wood-Mason and de Niceville); Kangra, N.-W. Himalayas (Moore) Sikkim (de Niceville; Elwes) and (P. e. corbeti Evans, 1937) the Malay Peninsula.
References[]
Categories:
- Hesperiinae
- Butterflies of Asia
- Butterflies of Indochina
- Butterflies described in 1869
- Taxa named by William Chapman Hewitson
- Hesperiinae stubs