Arnetta atkinsoni
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Isoteinon atkinsoni Moore, 1883[1] |
Arnetta atkinsoni is a species of Skipper butterfly found in Asia.
[edit] Description
Upperside dark glossy olive-brown ; cilia brownish-cinereous with a brown inner line and indistinct bars : forewing with a small yellow semi-diaphanous spot at end of the cell, three smaller contiguous spots obliquely before the apex, and two contiguous spots obliquely on the disc. Underside speckled with ochreous-green : forewing marked as above ; hindwing with a median discal curved series of eight small prominent white spots, and a spot at end of the cell.
—E. Y. Watson[2]
Found in Darjeeling. Wing expanse of 1.1 inches.
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