Onryza meiktila

Onryza meiktila
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
Binomial name
Onryza meiktila
Synonyms
  • Parnara meiktila de Nicéville, 1891
  • Halpe meiktila de Nicéville, 1891

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]

References

  1. ^ de Nicéville in Watson, 1891 Notes on a collection of butterflies made in the Chin-Lushai expedition of 1889-90 Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 6 : 26-59
  2. ^ Seitz, A., 1912-1927. Die Indo-Australien Tagfalter Grossschmetterlinge Erde 9
  • Onryza at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms