Aeromachus is a genus of grass skippers in the family Hesperiidae. The species are known by the common name of scrub hoppers. They are found in the eastern Palearctic and the Indomalayan realm.
Club of antenna of medium thickness, with a short, recurved tip. The second segment of the palpus erect, the third porrect (stretched forward). Vein 5 of forewing midway between 4 and 6. The males have usually a linear stigma on the forewing which extends from vein 3 to 1.
Species
- Aeromachus bandaishanus <small>Murayama & Shimonoya, 1973</small>
- Aeromachus catocyanea <small>(Mabille, 1879)</small> China (Yunnan)
- Aeromachus cognatus <small>Inoue & Kawazoe, 1966</small> Vietnam
- Aeromachus dalailama <small>(Mabille, 1876)</small>
- Aeromachus dubius <small>Elwes & Edwards, 1897</small>
- Aeromachus inachus <small>(Ménétriés, 1859)</small> Ussuri, Amurland, Taiwan, Japan.
- Aeromachus jhora <small>(de Nicéville, 1885)</small>
- Aeromachus kali <small>(de Nicéville, 1885)</small>
- Aeromachus matsudai <small>Murayama, 1943</small>
- Aeromachus monstrabilus <small>Huang, 2003</small> Tibet
- Aeromachus muscus <small>(Mabille, 1876)</small>
- Aeromachus nanus <small>(Leech, 1890)</small>
- Aeromachus piceus <small>Leech, 1894</small> China (Sichuan, Yunnan)
- Aeromachus plumbeola <small>(C. & R. Felder, 1867)</small>
- Aeromachus propinquus <small>Alphéraky, 1897</small> China (Yunnan)
- Aeromachus pseudojhora <small>Lee, 1962</small> China (Yunnan)
- Aeromachus pygmaeus <small>(Fabricius, 1775)</small> India (Nilgiris etc to Assam), Myanmar, Thailand
- Aeromachus skola <small>Evans, 1943</small>
- Aeromachus spuria <small>Evans, 1943</small>
- Aeromachus stigmata <small>(Moore, 1878)</small> Pakistan (Punjab), India (Assam), Myanmar, Thailand, Laos, China (Yunnan).
References
Further reading
- et al. 2019. A multilocus phylogenetic framework of the tribe Aeromachini (Lepidoptera: Hesperiidae: Hesperiinae), with implications for taxonomy and biogeography. Systematic Entomology, 44: 163âÂÂ178.
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