Baoris pagana

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Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Arthropoda Class: Insecta Order: Lepidoptera Family: Hesperiidae Genus: Baoris Species: B. pagana
Binomial name
Baoris pagana de Niceville, 1887

Baoris pagana is a species of skipper butterfly found in Asia.

[edit] Description

Male. Upperside : both wings rich dark brown glossed with purple, the base clothed with long deep ochreous-ferruginous setae. Cilia ochreous-yellow in the forewing, becoming orange towards the anal angle in the hindwing. Forewing with a spot at the end of the cell sometimes almost quadrate, sometimes constricted in the middle and forming a figure of 8, sometimes quite divided into two spots ; three small subapical dots ; three increasing discal spots, the anterior one sometimes absent ; a spot placed above and against the middle of the submedian nervure, usually round, sometimes oval, rarely entirely absent ; all these spots semi-transparent yellow. Hindwing unmarked. Underside : both wings ochreous-brown without any purple gloss, the yellow setae also absent. Forewing with the base (all except the costa) black ; the semitransparent spots as above, but the one in the submedian interspace developed into a large diffused patch. Hindwing unmarked. Female with the wings a little broader, otherwise exactly as in the male.

—E. Y. Watson^[1]

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