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Ampittia dioscorides

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Species of butterfly

Common bush hopper
A. d. dioscorides in Kerala, India
Male in Kerala, India
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Hesperiidae
Genus: Ampittia
Species: A. dioscorides
Binomial name
Ampittia dioscorides
(Fabricius, 1793)

Ampittia dioscorides, the common bush hopper or simply bush hopper, is a species of butterfly found in India, China, Indochina, Cambodia and on to Borneo, Sumatra and Java belonging to the family Hesperiidae.

Description

For a key to the terms used, see Glossary of entomology terms.

Male. Upper.side. Forewing bright golden-yellow, costal line black, outer margin with a broad even black band, slightly but squarely bulged inward at the hinder angle, a broad black baud on the hinder margin with two golden-yellow spots in it, one a little before the middle, the other a little beyond the middle; a black band running up from the middle of the hinder marginal band to the costa one-third before the apex, throwing out a cross band from above its middle and joining the marginal

band; in some examples this diseal band is disconnected from the costa from the crossbar. Hindwing blackish-brown, with an irregular-shaped, short, broad, diseal, golden yellow band, composed of spots divided by the veins, the two centre ones elongated, the lower ones small. Cilia brown, touched in parts with golden-yellow, especially at the anal angle. Underside. Forewing as above, but the extreme outer margin is more or less golden-yellow. Hindwing with the ground colour golden-yellow, most of the wing covered with minute brown scales, the diseal patch as above, edged with pale in-own, and a series of pale brown sub-marginal spots all round the wing from the base to the anal angle. Antennae black, ringed with yellow, the cIub yellow on the underside and at the tip; palpi, head and body brown above, palpi and head marked with yellow, all yellow beneath.

Female. Upperside dark brown. Forewing with a yellow spot at the end of the cell, and a diseal series of yellow spots, two, sometimes three, divided by the veins, from near the costa, one-sixth from the apex, two in the middle of the disc in the median interspaces, and a small one in the interno-median interspace, an indistinctseries of sub-marginal yellowish spots on the upper half of the wing. Underside paler. Forewing with the spots as above put larger, a yellow sub-costal streak from the base to beyond the middle. Hindwing with many minute yellow scales in parts, a discal series of yellowish spots and a sub-marginal series.

— Charles Swinhoe, Lepidoptera Indica. Vol. X

Subspecies

  • A. d. dioscorides Ceylon, Peninsular India, Calcutta, Sikkim to Assam, Burma
  • A. d. etura (Mabille, 1891) Vietnam, Hainan, South Yunnan, Taiwan
  • A. d. camertes (Hewitson, 1868) Burma, Thailand, Laos, Yunnan, Malaysia, Singapore, Borneo, Sumatra, Nias, Java, Bali
  • Male Male
  • Female Female
  • Mating pair; male right, female left Mating pair; male right, female left
  • A. d. singa, male Sri Lanka A. d. singa, male Sri Lanka
  • Illustration Illustration

References

  1. ^ R.K., Varshney; Smetacek, Peter (2015). A Synoptic Catalogue of the Butterflies of India. New Delhi: Butterfly Research Centre, Bhimtal & Indinov Publishing, New Delhi. p. 41. doi:10.13140/RG.2.1.3966.2164. ISBN 978-81-929826-4-9.
  2. "ADW: Ampittia dioscorides: CLASSIFICATION".
  3. "Ampittia dioscorides Fabricius, 1793 | Species | India Biodiversity Portal". Archived from the original on 20 August 2016. Retrieved 18 March 2014.
  4. "Welcome ifoundbutterflies.org - BlueHost.com". www.ifoundbutterflies.org. Retrieved 23 April 2023.
  5. "The Bush Hopper". Archived from the original on 4 August 2014. Retrieved 18 March 2014.
  6. W. H., Evans (1949). A Catalogue of the Hesperiidae from Europe, Asia, and Australia in the British Museum. London: British Museum (Natural History). Department of Entomology. p. 239.
  7. ^ Public Domain One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain: Swinhoe, Charles (1912–1913). Lepidoptera Indica. Vol. X. Vol. 10. London: Lovell Reeve and Co. pp. 125–127.

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