Aeromachus kali
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| Aeromachus kali de Niceville, 1885 |
Aeromachus kali is a species of Skipper butterfly found in Asia.
[edit] 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.
—E. Y. Watson[1]
Wing expanse of 1.15 inches.
Found in Sikkim.
[edit] References
- ^ Watson, E. Y. 1891. Hesperiidae Indicae. Vest and co. Madras
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