| Common bush hopper | |
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| Male in Kerala, India | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Hesperiidae |
| Genus: | Ampittia |
| Species: | A. dioscorides |
| Binomial name | |
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Ampitta dioscorides (Fabricius, 1793) |
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Ampittia dioscorides, the common bush hopper or simply bush hopper, is a butterfly found in India, China, Indochina and on to Borneo, Sumatra and Java belonging to the family Hesperiidae.
Male
Female
Mating pair; male right, female left
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