Arnetta atkinsoni

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;

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

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).

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References

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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[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