Biology:Pithauria murdava
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Short description: Species of butterfly
| Pithauria murdava | |
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| Pithauria murdava figure 13 | |
Scientific classification 
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| Script error: No such module "Taxobox ranks".: | Animalia |
| Script error: No such module "Taxobox ranks".: | Arthropoda |
| Script error: No such module "Taxobox ranks".: | Insecta |
| Script error: No such module "Taxobox ranks".: | Lepidoptera |
| Script error: No such module "Taxobox ranks".: | Hesperiidae |
| Script error: No such module "Taxobox ranks".: | Pithauria |
| Script error: No such module "Taxobox ranks".: | <div style="display:inline" class="script error: no such module "taxobox ranks".">P. murdava |
| Binomial name | |
| Pithauria murdava Moore, 1866
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Pithauria murdava is a skipper butterfly in the family Hesperiidae first described by Frederic Moore in 1866. It is found in Darjeeling, India.
Description
Upperside olive brown: forewing with the base grey, with six small yellow spots, two within the extremity of the cell, two near the costa, one-third from the apex, and two midway beneath; hindwing grey to beyond the middle. Underside pale yellowish brown; disk of forewing blackish, spots as above: hindwing with indistinct submarginal and discal pale yellowish spots. Abdomen above with greyish-brown segmental bands. Palpi, abdomen, and legs beneath dull yellow.[2]
References
- ↑ yutaka.it-n.jp
- ↑ Watson, E. Y. (1891). Hesperiidae Indicae: being a reprint of descriptions of the Hesperiidae of India, Burma, and Ceylon.
Wikidata ☰ Q7198929 entry
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