Kingdom Animalia Family Hesperiidae Scientific name Hyarotis adrastus Rank Species | Class Insecta Genus Hyarotis Phylum Arthropoda Order Butterflies and moths | |
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Similar Notocrypta paralysos, Astictopterus jama, Iambrix salsala, Halpe porus, Baoris farri | ||
Hyarotis adrastus, the tree flitter, is a butterfly belonging to the family Hesperiidae.
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Description
Male and female, dark chocolate-brown. Upperside, forewing with three small conjugated subapical semi-transparent white spots, three similar and larger discal spots, and a fourth above them within the cell. Underside darker brown basally, paler exteriorly ; forewing with spots as above, bordered externally by a suffused dark brown streak ; hindwing with a double series of white dark brown-outer-bordered lunules crossing the middle of the wing, beyond which is a submarginal series of suffused dark brown spots. Palpi, thorax, and abdomen beneath pale greyishbrown. Legs brown. Cilia yellowish- white, spotted with pale brown.
Distribution
Bengal. (Moore in P. Z. S.) Recorded from Ceylon (Hutchison, Wade, Mackwood); Andamans, Cachar (Wood-Mason and de Niceville); Sikkim (de Niceville; Elwes); Calcutta (de Niceville); Kumaon (Doherty); Kangra, N.-W. Himalayas (Moore) Orissa (Taylor); Nilgiris (Hampson).