Recent record of a rarely recorded species, the Veined Palmer Hidari bhawani de Nicéville, 1888 (Lepidoptera: Hesperiidae: Aeromachini) from Jorhat, Assam, India

Abstract

The paper reports the occurrence of a ‘very rare’ species, the Veined Palmer or the Cresentric Skipper, Hidari bhawani from Jorhat, Assam during March and November’2014,after 6 decades in India. The genera Hidari occurs as only three species that are restricted to southeast Asia and H. bhawani being only species for this genera represented in India

Keywords

• Hidari bhawani
• Hesperiidae
• Rain Forest Research Institute
• Rare
• Assam
• South-east Asia.