White-banded flat | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Lepidoptera |
Family: | Hesperiidae |
Genus: | Celaenorrhinus |
Species: | C. asmara
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Binomial name | |
Celaenorrhinus asmara (Butler, 1879)
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Celaenorrhinus asmara,[1] commonly known as the white-banded flat,[2] is a species of hesperiid butterfly which is found in South and Southeast Asia.
The butterfly occurs in India, Myanmar, Malaysia, Thailand, Laos, Vietnam, and Indonesia.[2][3] The butterfly occurs in India from Assam onward to the Karen Hills in Myanmar.[4]
In 1932, William Harry Evans reported that Celaenorrhinus asmara was not rare in India and Myanmar.[4]