Aeromachus dalailama
"Ampittia dalailama" in Adalbert Seitz's Fauna Palaearctica, page 87 line "e"
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Hesperiidae
Genus:	Ampittia
Species:	A. dalailama
Binomial name
Ampittia dalailama (Mabille, 1876) [1]
Synonyms
Cyclopides dalailamaMabille, 1876 Ampittia dalailama(Mabille, 1876) Taractrocera lydeLeech, 1891

Aeromachus dalailama is a species of butterfly in the family Hesperiidae. It was described by Paul Mabille in 1876. It is found in Tibet and western China.

Contents

• Description
• Subspecies
• References
• Further reading
• External links

Description

Hindwing beneath brown, densely dusted with yellow scales, with three yellow spots near the base and a postmedian as well as a subterminal row of yellow dots; the postmedian spots of cellules 3 and 4 are placed near the centre of these cellules and cover their whole breadth.

Subspecies

• Aeromachus dalailama dalailama(Mabille, 1876) China
• Aeromachus dalailama jesta(Evans, 1939) Tibet, China

References

Further reading

• Huang, Z.F.et al. 2019. A multilocus phylogenetic framework of the tribe Aeromachini (Lepidoptera: Hesperiidae: Hesperiinae), with implications for taxonomy and biogeography. Systematic Entomology, 44: 163–178.

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