Arnetta atkinsoni
Arnetta atkinsoni is a species of skipper butterfly found in South Asia (Sikkim to Assam, Burma, Thailand, Laos, Vietnam, Yunnan).
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Hesperiidae |
| Genus: | Arnetta |
| Species: | A. atkinsoni |
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Description
Upperside dark glossy olive-brown; cilia brownish-cinereous with a brown inner line and indistinct bars: forewing with a small yellow semi-diaphanous spot at end of the cell, three smaller contiguous spots obliquely before the apex, and two contiguous spots obliquely on the disc. Underside speckled with ochreous-green: forewing marked as above; hindwing with a median discal curved series of eight small prominent white spots, and a spot at end of the cell.
It is found in Darjeeling, India. Wing expanse of 1.1 inches (28 mm).
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References
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- Arnetta, funet.fi
- Moore, Frederic (1878) P. Z. S.:693
- Watson, E. Y. 1891. Hesperiidae Indicae: being a reprint of descriptions of the Hesperiidae of India, Burma, and Ceylon. Vest and co. Madras
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