Ampittia dioscorides, the common bush hopper or simply bush hopper,[1][2][3][4][5] is a species of butterfly found in India, China, Indochina, Cambodia and on to Borneo, Sumatra and Java belonging to the family Hesperiidae.[6][7][1]
| Common bush hopper | |
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| A. d. dioscorides in Kerala, India | |
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| Male in Kerala, India | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Hesperiidae |
| Genus: | Ampittia |
| Species: | A. dioscorides
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| Binomial name | |
| Ampittia dioscorides (Fabricius, 1793)
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Description
editMale. Upper.side. Forewing bright golden-yellow, costal line black, outer margin with a broad even black band, slightly but squarely bulged inward at the hinder angle, a broad black baud on the hinder margin with two golden-yellow spots in it, one a little before the middle, the other a little beyond the middle; a black band running up from the middle of the hinder marginal band to the costa one-third before the apex, throwing out a cross band from above its middle and joining the marginal
band; in some examples this diseal band is disconnected from the costa from the crossbar. Hindwing blackish-brown, with an irregular-shaped, short, broad, diseal, golden yellow band, composed of spots divided by the veins, the two centre ones elongated, the lower ones small. Cilia brown, touched in parts with golden-yellow, especially at the anal angle. Underside. Forewing as above, but the extreme outer margin is more or less golden-yellow. Hindwing with the ground colour golden-yellow, most of the wing covered with minute brown scales, the diseal patch as above, edged with pale in-own, and a series of pale brown sub-marginal spots all round the wing from the base to the anal angle. Antennae black, ringed with yellow, the cIub yellow on the underside and at the tip; palpi, head and body brown above, palpi and head marked with yellow, all yellow beneath.
Female. Upperside dark brown. Forewing with a yellow spot at the end of the cell, and a diseal series of yellow spots, two, sometimes three, divided by the veins, from near the costa, one-sixth from the apex, two in the middle of the disc in the median interspaces, and a small one in the interno-median interspace, an indistinctseries of sub-marginal yellowish spots on the upper half of the wing. Underside paler. Forewing with the spots as above put larger, a yellow sub-costal streak from the base to beyond the middle. Hindwing with many minute yellow scales in parts, a discal series of yellowish spots and a sub-marginal series.
Subspecies
edit- A. d. dioscorides Ceylon, Peninsular India, Calcutta, Sikkim to Assam, Burma[1]
- A. d. etura (Mabille, 1891) Vietnam, Hainan, South Yunnan, Taiwan
- A. d. camertes (Hewitson, 1868) Burma, Thailand, Laos, Yunnan, Malaysia, Singapore, Borneo, Sumatra, Nias, Java, Bali
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Mating pair; male right, female left -
A. d. singa, male Sri Lanka -
Illustration
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References
edit- ^ a b c R.K., Varshney; Smetacek, Peter (2015). A Synoptic Catalogue of the Butterflies of India. New Delhi: Butterfly Research Centre, Bhimtal & Indinov Publishing, New Delhi. p. 41. doi:10.13140/RG.2.1.3966.2164. ISBN 978-81-929826-4-9.
- ^ "ADW: Ampittia dioscorides: CLASSIFICATION".
- ^ "Ampittia dioscorides Fabricius, 1793 | Species | India Biodiversity Portal". Archived from the original on 20 August 2016. Retrieved 18 March 2014.
- ^ "Welcome ifoundbutterflies.org - BlueHost.com". www.ifoundbutterflies.org. Retrieved 23 April 2023.
- ^ "The Bush Hopper". Archived from the original on 4 August 2014. Retrieved 18 March 2014.
- ^ W. H., Evans (1949). A Catalogue of the Hesperiidae from Europe, Asia, and Australia in the British Museum. London: British Museum (Natural History). Department of Entomology. p. 239.
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One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain: Swinhoe, Charles (1912–1913). Lepidoptera Indica. Vol. X. Vol. 10. London: Lovell Reeve and Co. pp. 125–127.
External links
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Data related to Ampittia at Wikispecies
Media related to Ampittia dioscorides at Wikimedia Commons- Images representing Ampittia discorides at Consortium for the Barcode of Life
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