Pelopidas agna

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Pelopidas agna
in Nepal
in West Bengal, India
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Hesperiidae
Genus: Pelopidas
Species:
P. agna
Binomial name
Pelopidas agna
(Moore, 1865)
Synonyms
  • Hesperia agna Moore, 1866
  • Pamphila similis Moore, 1881
  • Chapra mathias niasica Fruhstorfer, 1911
  • Pelopidas dingo Evans, 1949
  • Chapra agna; Moore, 1881

Pelopidas agna, the obscure branded swift

Hesperiidae found in India.[1][2]

Description

In 1891, Edward Yerbury Watson wrote:

Upperside glossy olive-brown; forewing with a series of six very small rather indistinct whitish semi-transparent spots curving from before the apex to the middle of the wing; beneath these is a short oblique pale impressed streak, which is suffused with black on its anterior margin. Cilia pale brown. Underside pale brown; spots on forewing as above but less defined; hindwing with a curved discal series of white dots and a single dot near the base. Palpi and body beneath pale brownish-yellow.The spots are much less prominent in the dry season form than wet season form.

— E. Y. Watson[3]

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