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Aeromachus kali
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Hesperiidae
Genus:	Aeromachus
Species:	A. kali
Binomial name
Aeromachus kali de Nicéville, 1885

Aeromachus kali is a species of skipper butterfly found in Asia (Sikkim, Assam, Burma, Laos) and Yunnan.

Description

Male upperside deep purplish black, the cilia cinereous. Underside slightly paler. Forewing with a discal outwardly angled series of eight pale violet-white dots, an even somewhat larger marginal lunular series. Hindwing with a discal irregular series of pale violet-white spots, within which are some obscure pale markings; a marginal series as in the forewing. Cilia cinereous, marked with dark brown at the ends of the nervules.

— Edward Yerbury Watson

Wing expanse of 1.15 inches (29 mm).

It is found in Sikkim, India.

References

1. Watson, E. Y. 1891. Hesperiidae Indicae. Vest and co. Madras

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