Himalayan Swift

Polytremis discreta

Classification

Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Hesperiidae

Polytremis discreta, the Himalayan swift, is a butterfly belonging to the family Hesperiidae. A small, brown skipper with distinct white or dirty white spots on its wings. The spot in cell 2 shorter in proportion, its inner and outer edges nearly parallel.

Distribution

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Sources and credits

Photo(c) Subhadra Devi, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC-BY DescriptionPolytremis discreta, Wikipedia contributors

Himalayan Swift

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