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forewing with a broad darkbrown basal streak, a small spot at end of cell, and a large patch at posterior angle; hindwing with a brown-speckled streak along inner margin, terminating broadly at anal angle. Body above brown, head and thorax interspersed with yellow hairs; abdomen narrowly banded with yellow; palpi black above, yellow below. Legs and body beneath yellow. Female Larger than the male, with the yellow discal basal throughout in the posterior wings, but only in the interno-median area in the anterior ones, and the yellow portions of the cilia, especially towards the inner and anal angles, darker, inclining to orange. Mr. de Niceville notes that the male has a bare patch at the end of the cell on the upperside of the hindwing on which is placed an oval patch of closely packed scales.
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Upperside blackish-brown; cilia yellow, slightly alternated with black; forewing with a gamboge-yellow basal streak, and a median oblique irregular band commencing from near apex, extending to hindmargin and terminating at its base; hindwing with a short median yellow band. Underside sulphur-yellow;
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is found from southern India and Sikkim to Burma, southern Yunnan, the Andamans, Thailand, Laos, Langkawi, Malaysia, Tioman, Borneo, Sumatra, Nias, Java, the Philippines and Sulawesi.
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Scientific classification
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Eukaryota
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Lepidoptera
Hesperiidae
Erionotini
Cupitha
Moore
Binomial name
Moore
Synonyms
butterflies
Hesperiidae
monotypic
Edward Yerbury Watson
Quisqualis indica
Terminalia paniculata
Terminalia bellirica
Combretum ovalifolium
Ehretia


A Synoptic Catalogue of the Butterflies of India
doi
10.13140/RG.2.1.3966.2164
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