Pelopidas agna

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Dark Branded Swift
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Pelopidas agna
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P. agna
Binomial name
Pelopidas agna
(Moore, 1865)

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Pelopidas agna, commonly known as the Obscure Branded Swift, is a butterfly belonging to the family Hesperiidae.

Description

"Upperside glossy olive-brown ; forewing with a series of six very small rather indistinct whitish semi-transparent spots curving from before the apex to the middle of the wing ; beneath these is a short oblique pale impressed streak, which is suffused with black on its anterior margin. Cilia pale brown. Underside pale brown ; spots on forewing as above but less defined ; hindwing with a curved discal series of white dots and a single dot near the base. Palpi and body beneath pale brownish-yellow."[1]

References

  1. Watson, E. Y. (1891) Hesperiidae Indicae: Descriptions of the Hesperiidae of India, Burma and Ceylon. Vest and Co. Madras. [Under Chapra agna]

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