Arnetta atkinsoni

Arnetta atkinsoni is a species of skipper butterfly found in South Asia (Sikkim to Assam, Burma, Thailand, Laos, Vietnam, Yunnan).

Arnetta atkinsoni
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Arthropoda
Class:
Insecta
Order:
Lepidoptera
Family:
Hesperiidae
Genus:
Arnetta
Species:
A. atkinsoni
Binomial name
Arnetta atkinsoni
(Moore, 1878)[1]
Synonyms
  • Isoteinon atkinsoni Moore, 1883[2]
  • Isoteinon khasianus Moore, 1878
  • Isoteinon subtestaceus Moore, 1878
  • Pedestes parnaca Fruhstorfer, 1910
  • Arnetta atkinsoni sinensis Lee, 1962

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.

— Edward Yerbury Watson[3]

It is found in Darjeeling, India. Wing expanse of 1.1 inches (28 mm).

References
  1. Arnetta, funet.fi
  2. Moore, Frederic (1878) P. Z. S.:693
  3. 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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