Baoris pagana

Taxobox | name =
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Arthropoda
classis = Insecta
ordo = Lepidoptera
familia = Hesperiidae
genus = "Baoris"
species = "B. pagana"
binomial = "Baoris pagana"
binomial_authority = de Niceville, 1887

"Baoris pagana" is a species of skipper butterfly found in Asia.

Description

quote|Male. Upperside : both wings rich dark brown glossed with purple, the base clothed with long deep ochreous-ferruginous setae. Cilia ochreous-yellow in the forewing, becoming orange towards the anal anglein the hindwing. Forewing with a spot at the end of the cell sometimes almost quadrate, sometimes constricted in the middle and forming a figure of 8, sometimes quite divided into two spots ; three smallsubapical dots ; three increasing discal spots, the anterior one sometimes absent ; a spot placed above and against the middle of the submedian nervure, usually round, sometimes oval, rarely entirely absent ; all these spots semi-transparent yellow. Hindwing unmarked. Underside : both wings ochreous-brown without any purple gloss, the yellow setae also absent. Forewing with the base (all except the costa) black ; the semitransparentspots as above, but the one in the submedian interspace developed into a large diffused patch. Hindwing unmarked. Female with the wings a little broader, otherwise exactly as in the male.|E. Y. Watson [Watson, E. Y. 1891. Hesperiidae Indicae: being a reprint of descriptions of the Hesperiidae of India, Burma, and Ceylon. Vest and co. Madras]

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