Hyarotis adrastus
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| name = Tree flitter
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| taxon = Hyarotis adrastus
| authority = (Cramer, 1780)Cramer, Pap. Exot., vol. iv, pi. 319, figs. F, G
(1780)
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Hyarotis adrastus, the tree flitter, is a butterfly belonging to the family Hesperiidae found in South Asia and Southeast Asia.{{Cite book|url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/287980260|title=A Synoptic Catalogue of the Butterflies of India |last1=Varshney |first1=R.K. |last2=Smetacek|first2=Peter|publisher=Butterfly Research Centre, Bhimtal & Indinov Publishing, New Delhi|year=2015|isbn=978-81-929826-4-9|location=New Delhi|pages=51|doi=10.13140/RG.2.1.3966.2164}}{{Cite book|url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/187283#page/326/mode/1up|title=A Catalogue of the Hesperiidae from Europe, Asia, and Australia in the British Museum |last=Evans |first=W. H. |author-link=William Harry Evans |publisher=British Museum (Natural History). Department of Entomology|year=1949|location=London|pages=302}}{{Source-attribution|sentence=yes|{{Cite book|url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/103495#page/183/mode/1up|title=Lepidoptera Indica. Vol. X |last=Swinhoe|first=Charles|author-link=Charles Swinhoe|publisher=Lovell Reeve and Co.|year=1912–1913|location=London|pages=169–170}}}}
Description
{{quote|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{{Source-attribution|sentence=yes|{{Cite book|url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/64080#page/98/mode/1up|title=Hesperiidae Indicae: being a reprint of descriptions of the Hesperiidae of India, Burma, and Ceylon |last=Watson |first=E. Y. |author-link=Edward Yerbury Watson|publisher=Vest and Company|year=1891|location=Madras|pages=84}}}}}}
Distribution
Bengal. (Moore in P. Z. S.) Recorded from Ceylon (Hutchison, Wade, Mackwood); Andamans, Cachar (Wood-Mason and de Nicéville); Sikkim (de Nicéville; Elwes); Calcutta (de Nicéville); Kumaon (Doherty); Kangra, N.-W. Himalayas (Moore) Orissa (Taylor); Nilgiris (Hampson).Burma, Andamans, Thailand, Laos, Vietnam, Hainan, Hong Kong, Malaysia, Tioman, Singapore, Borneo, Sumatra, Java, Palawan, Philippines.{{cite web |last=Savela |first=Markku |url=http://www.nic.funet.fi/pub/sci/bio/life/insecta/lepidoptera/ditrysia/hesperioidea/hesperiidae/hesperiinae/hyarotis/#adrastus |title=Hyarotis adrastus (Stoll, [1780]) |website=Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms |access-date=July 2, 2018}}
References
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Category:Butterflies of Borneo
Category:Butterflies of Singapore
Category:Butterflies of Indochina
Category:Taxa named by Pieter Cramer
Category:Butterflies of Malaysia
Category:Lepidoptera of Sumatra
Category:Butterflies described in 1780
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