Hyarotis adrastus

Tree flitter
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Hesperiidae
Genus:	Hyarotis
Species:	H. adrastus
Binomial name
Hyarotis adrastus (Cramer, 1780)[1]

Hyarotis adrastus, the tree flitter, is a butterfly belonging to the family Hesperiidae.

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.

— Edward Yerbury Watson^[2]

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).

References

1. Cramer, Pap. Exot., vol. iv, pi. 319, figs. F, G (1780)
2. Watson, E. Y. 1891. Hesperiidae Indicae: being a reprint of descriptions of the Hesperiidae of India, Burma, and Ceylon. Vest and co. Madras