Aeromachus dalailama
| Aeromachus dalailama | |
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| "Ampittia dalailama" in Adalbert Seitz's Fauna Palaearctica, page 87 line "e" | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Hesperiidae |
| Genus: | Ampittia |
| Species: | A. dalailama
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| Binomial name | |
| Ampittia dalailama | |
| Synonyms | |
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Aeromachus dalailama is a species of butterfly in the family Hesperiidae. It was described by Paul Mabille in 1876. It is found in Tibet and western China.
Description
Hindwing beneath brown, densely dusted with yellow scales, with three yellow spots near the base and a postmedian as well as a subterminal row of yellow dots; the postmedian spots of cellules 3 and 4 are placed near the centre of these cellules and cover their whole breadth.
Subspecies
- Aeromachus dalailama dalailama (Mabille, 1876) China
- Aeromachus dalailama jesta (Evans, 1939) Tibet, China
References
Further reading
- Huang, Z.F. et al. 2019. A multilocus phylogenetic framework of the tribe Aeromachini (Lepidoptera: Hesperiidae: Hesperiinae), with implications for taxonomy and biogeography. Systematic Entomology, 44: 163–178.
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