Ampittia dioscorides
| Common bush hopper | |
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| Male in Kerala, India | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Hesperiidae |
| Genus: | Ampittia |
| Species: | A. dioscorides |
| Binomial name | |
| Ampitta dioscorides (Fabricius, 1793) | |
Ampittia dioscorides, the common bush hopper or simply bush hopper, [1] [2] [3] [4] is a butterfly found in India, China, Indochina and on to Borneo, Sumatra and Java belonging to the family Hesperiidae.
Subspecies
- A. d. dioscorides Ceylon, Peninsular India, Calcutta, Sikkim to Assam, Burma
- A. d. etura (Mabille, 1891) Vietnam, Hainan, South Yunnan, Formosa
- A. d. camertes (Hewitson, 1868) Burma, Thailand, Laos, Yunnan, Malaysia, Singapore, Borneo, Sumatra, Nias, Java, Bali
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Male
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Female
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Mating pair; male right, female left
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Illustration
References
- ↑ http://animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu/accounts/Ampittia_dioscorides/classification/
- ↑ http://indiabiodiversity.org/species/show/262668
- ↑ http://www.ifoundbutterflies.org/285-ampittia/ampittia-dioscorides
- ↑ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2014-08-04. Retrieved 2014-03-18.
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