Onryza meiktila
| Onryza meiktila | |
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| Figure 32 from Lionel de Nicéville's 1891 "On New and Little-Known Butterflies from the Indo-Malayan Region" | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Hesperiidae |
| Genus: | Onryza |
| Species: | O. meiktila
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| Binomial name | |
| Onryza meiktila (de Nicéville, 1891)[1]
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Onryza meiktila is a butterfly in the family Hesperiidae. It was described by Lionel de Nicéville in 1891. It is found in the Indomalayan realm in Burma, Thailand and Laos.The scent-organ is formed by a tuft of long hair on the hindwing above, where they sprout forth near the base. In colour it is above blackish-brown, at the base of the hind-margin reddish-yellow with a treble spot in the cell-end and 3 postmedian ones behind it near the hind-margin, as well as 3 subapical streaks; hindwing suffused with orange-brown excepting the costal margin which exhibits the long hair-pencil above. Beneath more yellowish.[2]
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Wikispecies has information related to Onryza meiktila.
- Onryza at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms