Aeromachus

Aeromachus
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Aeromachus in Seitz Fauna Palaearctica 86g
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Hesperiidae
Subfamily:	Hesperiinae
Tribe:	Aeromachini
Genus:	Aeromachus de Nicéville, 1890

Aeromachus is a genus of Grass Skippers in the family Hesperiidae. The species are known by the common name of Scrub Hoppers.They are found in the eastern Palearctic and the Indomalayan ecozone.

Club of antenna of medium thickness, with a short, recurved tip. The second segment of the palpus erect, the third porrect. Vein 5 of forewing midway between 4 and 6 The males have usually a linear stigma on the forewing which extends from vein 3 to 1.

Species

• Aeromachus bandaishanus Murayama & Shimonoya, 1973
• Aeromachus catocyanea (Mabille, 1879) Yunnan
• Aeromachus cognatus Inoue & Kawazoe, 1966 Vietnam
• Aeromachus dubius Elwes & Edwards, 1897
• Aeromachus inachus (Ménétriés, 1859) Ussuri, Amurland, Taiwan, Japan.
• Aeromachus jhora (de Nicéville, 1885)
• Aeromachus kali (de Nicéville, 1885)
• Aeromachus matsudai Murayama, 1943
• Aeromachus monstrabilus Huang, 2003 Tibet
• Aeromachus muscus (Mabille, 1876)
• Aeromachus piceus Leech, 1894 Sichuan, Yunnan
• Aeromachus plumbeolus (C. & R. Felder, 1867)
• Aeromachus propinquus Alphéraky, 1897 Yunnan
• Aeromachus pseudojhora Lee, 1962 South Yunnan
• Aeromachus pygmaeus (Fabricius, 1775) Nilgiris, Wynaad, Coorg, Kanara, Assam to Burma, Thailand
• Aeromachus skola Evans, 1943
• Aeromachus spuria Evans, 1943
• Aeromachus stigmata (Moore, 1878) Northwest Himalaya, Murree to Assam, Burma, Thailand, Laos, Yunnan.

References

• Natural History Museum Lepidoptera genus database
• Aeromachus at funet

External links

• Images representing Aeromachus at Consortium for the Barcode of Life