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Ampittia dioscorides

Common bush hopper
Ampittia dioscorides in Kadavoor.jpg
Male in Kerala, India
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Hesperiidae
Genus: Ampittia
Species: A. dioscorides
Binomial name
Ampitta dioscorides
(Fabricius, 1793)

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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