Isma miosticta

Isma miosticta
Figure 31 from Lionel de Nicéville's 1891 "On New and Little-Known Butterflies from the Indo-Malayan Region"
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Clade: Pancrustacea
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Hesperiidae
Genus: Isma
Species:
I. miosticta
Binomial name
Isma miosticta
(de Nicéville, [1890])
Synonyms
  • Parnara miosticta de Nicéville, 1891
  • Sepa indistincta Druce, 1912

Isma miosticta is a butterfly in the family Hesperiidae. It was described by Lionel de Nicéville in 1891. It is found in the Indomalayan realm (Burma, Thailand, Langkawi, Malaysia, Borneo, Bangka, Sipora and Siberut). The ground colour is brown.The subapical spots are white and the curved row of discal spots are yellow. There is a diffuse spot in space 1b.In females, the spots are generally larger and more quadrate (square-shaped) than in males.

References

  1. ↑ de Nicéville, 1891 "On New and Little-Known Butterflies from the Indo-Malayan Region" Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society. 6 (3): 341-398, pl. F-G
  2. ↑ Seitz, A., 1912-1927. Die Indo-Australien Tagfalter Grossschmetterlinge Erde 9

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