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Lesser Dart
Potanthus omaha
Potanthus omaha, commonly known as the lesser dart, is a species of skipper butterflies. It is found in Australia, Indochina, Malaysia, Singapore, the Philippines, India and Indonesia. It includes the following subspecies:
Potanthus omaha bione Evans, 1949 - endemic to Mindanao, Philippines
From the article Potanthus omaha on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA), quoted section by section
Description
The recto ground colour dark is dark brown with sharply contrasted bright orange-yellow markings. The verso is black, with the wings again marked yellow. The costal half of the forewing and of the hindwing is heavily dusted with yellowish scales. It is a small skipper (wingspan) 20-24 mm.) It is only reliably identifiable through the examination of the male genitalia.
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 366195.